> > On a related note, why don't rm and rmdir have a --strip-trailing-slashes
> > option?
>
> Because as far as I know, there is no need.
> Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
> removes only the referent of the symlink?
By a strict reading of
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/0096953
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the wrapper-induced overhead of an extra lstat imposed on losing
> systems, but only for operands with a trailing slash, is bearable.
> This is one of those `would be nice' things.
> But I'm not in any big hurry, since Linux 2.6.x does it right.
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
> removes only the referent of the symlink?
Lots of systems do that, I expect. Solaris 10 does, for example.
This is either with Solaris rmdir or coreutils 5.3.0 rmdir.
I wouldn't be surprised if core comm
> > On a related note, why don't rm and rmdir have a --strip-trailing-slashes
> > option?
>
> Because as far as I know, there is no need.
> Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
> removes only the referent of the symlink?
Yes, cygwin (but again, that goes back to the rmdir(2) bug
in cygw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote:
>> As you can imagine, I find the POSIX-required behavior to be senseless.
>> The above behavior of non-POSIX rename, seen on Linux-2.6.x, is fine.
>> Now that Linux/glibc provides a sane rename function, I'm tempted
>> to make mv work in the above manner on al
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes:
> Why don't rm and rmdir have a --strip-trailing-slashes option?
I'd guess because that option is an ugly hack and we'd rather that the
problem went away
> we should bring this up with the austin group.
Perhaps, but let's figure out what we want first.
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> As you can imagine, I find the POSIX-required behavior to be senseless.
>
> Two things.
>
> First, I recall that you preferred the non-POSIX behavior because of
> file name completion issues. But because we agi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) wrote:
...
> On a related note, why don't rm and rmdir have a --strip-trailing-slashes
> option?
Because as far as I know, there is no need.
Do you know of a system where `rmdir symlink/'
removes only the referent of the symlink?
...
> Oops - cygwin has a bug in thi
[cc-ing bash-completion maintainer]
> First, I recall that you preferred the non-POSIX behavior because of
> file name completion issues. But because we agitated about this a
> while ago, Bash now does a better job with file name completion. For
> example, given this:
>
> mkdir dir
>
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As you can imagine, I find the POSIX-required behavior to be senseless.
Two things.
First, I recall that you preferred the non-POSIX behavior because of
file name completion issues. But because we agitated about this a
while ago, Bash now does a better
>
> As you can imagine, I find the POSIX-required behavior to be senseless.
> The above behavior of non-POSIX rename, seen on Linux-2.6.x, is fine.
> Now that Linux/glibc provides a sane rename function, I'm tempted
> to make mv work in the above manner on all systems rather than allowing
> the cr
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> According to Dr. David Alan Gilbert on 9/26/2005 11:17 AM:
>>
$ mkdir a b
$ ln -s $PWD/a sym
$ mv sym/ b
mv: cannot move `sym/' to `b/sym': Not a directory
>>
>> Nod. Perhaps the warning needs a warning that it can't be relied
>> on?
>
> No,
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According to Dr. David Alan Gilbert on 9/26/2005 11:17 AM:
>
>>>$ mkdir a b
>>>$ ln -s $PWD/a sym
>>>$ mv sym/ b
>>>mv: cannot move `sym/' to `b/sym': Not a directory
>
> Nod. Perhaps the warning needs a warning that it can't be relied
> on?
No, PO
* Jim Meyering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > $ mkdir a b
> > $ ln -s $PWD/a sym
> > $ mv sym/ b
> > mv: cannot move `sym/' to `b/sym': Not a directory
> >
> > The 'mv' is straight out of recent cvs. I'm in an ext3 filesystem
> > on Linux (Ubuntu).
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding something about tha
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the info pages for 'mv' is the following statement:
> ---
> _Warning_: If you try to move a symlink that points to a directory,
> and you specify the symlink with a t
Hi,
In the info pages for 'mv' is the following statement:
---
_Warning_: If you try to move a symlink that points to a directory,
and you specify the symlink with a trailing slash, then `mv' doesn't
move the symlink but i
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