-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Adam Jimerson on 12/26/2008 4:14 PM: > When removing a non empty directory with 'rmdir' I think the > "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty" argument is over the edge. That is a lot > of typing when rm --recursive can do the same thing, and it is easier to > remember as well. Maybe make the "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty" something > shorter like force or even recursive will work.
Thanks for the report. However, coreutils use GNU getopt semantics, where unambiguous abbreviations of long options are recognized. Therefore, you need not type the full name, and can get by with: rmdir --i until such day that we introduce another long option whose name begins with i. Meanwhile, your claim that 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty' is equivalent to 'rm -r' is false; a recursive 'rm' deletes regular files to cause the directory to become empty and thus removable, while 'rmdir' only removes directories that were already empty or contain only empty subdirectories also being removed. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklWOfQACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDCpgCdEYJ1IhLDRfiL/cM7mw+LR9sh nGYAnjs9bFS5EZx54sC/kCh7epRQ6+9D =9Guz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
