Hi,
desired behavior:
$ mkdir /usr/share/myapp
$ mkdir /usr/share/myapp/pixmaps
$ mkdir /usr/share/myapp/pixmaps/8x16
$ install -m 644 icon.png /usr/share/myapp/pixmaps/8x16/
Uninstalling with clean up in such cases is a frequent task, and could be
greatly simplified by:
$ rm --parents /usr/share/myapp/pixmaps/8x16/icon.png
rm: failed to remove `/usr/share': Directory not empty
$ ls /usr/share/myapp
ls: cannot access /usr/share/myapp: No such file or directory
The idea is to remove the containing directory of a file recursively, upwards,
and stop that recursion on the first failure to remove a directory, most
probably because of ENOTEMPTY.
The same idea could be applied to chmod, chgrp, and chown.
Cheers,
Guido
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