On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> First is the more obvious one, where you have the semantics of doing
>> an 'rm' on a directory without passing the -r flag. If the directory
>> is empty, it's deleted. If it's not, the command fails.
>
> Not to flog a dead horse, but 'rm' doesn't do that.  Without '-r', rm always 
> fails on a directory, even if it's empty.  Only 'rmdir' will delete a 
> directory if empty and fail otherwise.

That's what I get for not checking before I post. Thanks for the info!

Mike
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