On 18/01/2021 20:15, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2021/01/18 08:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
find(1) can also ... [various examples of find's usefulness elided]
Have a nice day,
Berny
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As I stated in the original message:
On 2021/01/16 16:29, L A Walsh wrote:
Yes, you could do it some other way, like by using 'find',
but since it is about removing directories, having the option
under rmdir would seem a natural place to put it.
Thank you Bernhard, but numerous ways to do it with find don't
really have the simplicity, of using "remove dir" for its
"raison d'être":
rmdir -r DIR
vs. find:
find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +
One could also use find to implement recursive file removal instead of
using 'rm', but that's hardly simple or straightforward as "rm -r"
either.
`rmdir -r` does have some merit.
However the key thing here is it's an unusual operation.
Also there is a way to achieve it with a single existing command.
Comparing with `rm -r` is not equivalent as that's a vastly more common
operation.
Also that has overlaps with other functionality like prompting etc.
So I'd be 70:30 against adding `rmdir -r`
cheers,
Pádraig
