Re: rm --do-what-i-mean

[Rob Landley]

On 5/6/23 09:48, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> As mentioned in the coreutils gotchas, rm cannot always delete directory 
> hierarchies.
> 
> I'm sure the folks on this list could write
> 
> $ find -type d -exec chmod +wx {} +
> 
> in their sleep but it's not the most obvious way out of unwritable 
> directories.
> 
> Feels like a long shot, but could we add a new option to rm to add wx bits to 
> each directory encountered during a --recursive walk?
> 
> Perhaps -ff for "double force"? :) I looked for prior art in the *BSDs, but 
> found nothing.

Or just honor normal -f like toybox has done for the past decade?

  https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/5ce682e4f4b0

Rob