tag 15926 notabug close 15926 stop On 11/19/2013 11:56 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Since there is already an unlink command that corresponds to unlinking a file, > but there seems to be no command corresponding to the POSIX > remove command, it seems upgrading 'rm' to use the 'remove' > POSIX call would be a beneficial move of all the recent POSIX > changes. > > So how about upgrading 'rm' to use the remove function so > it would work on empty directories as well.
Well we have the -d option to rm to explicitly do that. That's a fairly fundamental change that would have backwards compat issues. POSIX is explicit in the handling of directories also: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/rm.html thanks, Pádraig.
