Re: rmdir -i

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
G> May be that's because rmdir works on ``empty'' directories. No point G> prompting. Some times we still want to be asked: $ rmdir -i dir4* dir?3 True, one could use features of xargs. Or we might want to alias to rmdir -i all day long for

Re: rmdir -i

2005-04-12 Thread G. Vamsee Krishna
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Hey no fair. rm has a -i, but rmdir doesn't. > Yes, there are other ways to simulate it. > May be that's because rmdir works on ``empty'' directories. No point prompting. Vamsee -- Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is

rmdir -i

2005-04-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Hey no fair. rm has a -i, but rmdir doesn't. Yes, there are other ways to simulate it. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils