On 02/03/2011 04:22 PM, Tom Tijerina wrote: > I have a friend I'm trying to get into learning Linux, not wanting to > hand feed him every command I've instructed him to use man when he get > stuck or needs help on how to use a command. > > He ran man rm and it says at the top its for removing files OR > directories. That is not correct as it does not give you any information > for removing directories. I assumed it may be an option of some sort but > I have not found it in the man page. Is this an oversight?
Thanks for the report, however, the sentence is correct as-is. $ mkdir dir $ rm -r dir successfully removes the directory dir. The -r option already has this text: -r, -R, --recursive remove directories and their contents recursively About the only thing that might be worth doing is rewording from one accurate sentence to another, but I don't know of anything better than this, and prefer the terseness of the original sentence (man pages are generated from the --help output, and --help should be a complete overview while still being concise): rm - remove files or directory hierarchies -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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