Re: Feature request: rm should implement option -p, --parents

[Andreas Schwab]

Guido Flohr <address@hidden> writes:

> Or even simpler because "rmdir -p" never has a zero exit-status.

That's not true.  rmdir -p only traverses as far as the argument allows,
thus if it is a relative filename it won't try to traverse further up
than the current directory (in absense of "..").  In other words, if
"mkdir -p $f" did created all levels, "rmdir -p $f" afterwards will
likely remove them all without any error.

Andreas.

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