Andreas Schwab wrote: > [...] read the second paragraph: > > If either of the files dot or dot-dot are specified as the basename > portion of an operand (that is, the final pathname component) or if > an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a > diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such > operands.
Coreutils has already implemented an exception for the root directory: --no-preserve-root (whatever this would be useful for except investigating what'd happen in a VM ...). So it'd be possible to have another new switch to exceptionally permit removing ".", although - again - I don't see much gain over `rm -rf "$PWD"` or `find . -delete`. -1 from me. Moreover, I'd remove support for --[no-]preserve-root in rm: preserving is mandatory by POSIX, and not preserving is senseless. Have a nice day, Berny
