I thank everyone who got involved with my little wish. I did not mean
for it to explode like this. I am entirely comfortable letting the whole
idea drop since there appears to be little to no support for it. I was
just an idle wish that crossed my mind that I wanted to share.
Again, thank you for reading it and taking the time to respond.
Have a very nice day!
Lady Aleena
On 2019-09-02 11:22, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 9/2/19 10:03 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
[...] I don't see any problem adding --interactive long
only option.
a) Bloat:
Apart from the --parents option, rmdir(1) is just a simple
wrapper around rmdir(2).
Just recently I've been asked (off-list) why src/true.c needs
to have 80+ lines while 3 lines would be enough.
b) Alternatives:
The case is trivial enough to have some little prompt wrapper around
it.
E.g. a bit contrived but works:
$ xargs -p rmdir DIR </dev/null
rmdir DIR ?...y
c) As Kaz already wrote: it's easy enough to re-create an empty
directory
which has been deleted accidentally.
d) My personal opinion: I'm not in favor of those "do you really want
to XYZ?"
questions - especially in the case one just explicitly told the tool
exactly
to "do XYZ". Similarly, one could argument why not to add it to sleep,
kill, cat, and so on.
Have a nice day,
Berny
