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bug#9931: Remove a non empty directory
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Eric Blake |
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bug#9931: Remove a non empty directory |
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Date: |
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:55 -0600 |
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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.
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