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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | [debbugs-tracker] bug#9931: closed (Remove a non empty directory) |
Date: | Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:19:02 +0000 |
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Remove a non empty directory Hello, Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:55:47 +0100
I use Putty to connect my ReadyNas Ultra2 in SSH mode.
My problem is I can't remove a non empty directory because there's no "-r" option in "rmdir".
How can I have a recursive function ?
Thanks,
Best regards,
Olivier
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#9931: Remove a non empty directory Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:55 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110928 Fedora/3.1.15-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.4 Thunderbird/3.1.15 tag 9931 notabug thanks On 11/01/2011 04:55 AM, Olivier LE GUEN wrote:My problem is I can't remove a non empty directory because there's no "-r" option in "rmdir". How can I have a recursive function ?Thanks for the report. However, this is unlikely to be changed in 'rmdir', because POSIX already standardized 'rm -r' as the way to recursively remove directories. So many people are used to 'rm -r' doing what you are asking for, that adding an extension of 'rmdir -r' as an alternative would only cause confusion, not to mention that the extension would not be available everywhere like 'rm -r' already is.-- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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