Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 8.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /bin/rmdir
> X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
>
> I would like to be able to do a recursive rmdir. This would save typing
> for the cases where I want to remove a whole empty dir hierarchy.
>
> Currently I do this:
>
> rmdir --parents foo/bar/baz
>
> I'd like to just do this:
>
> rmdir --recursive foo
>
> or this:
>
> rmdir -r foo
>
> Both of these commands should be equivalent to but significantly less
> typing than this command:
>
> find foo -depth -type d -empty -delete
Thanks for the suggestion, but there's no need
to add an option to rmdir, when you can accomplish
the same thing with a simple shell function or alias:
rmdir_r() { find "$@" -depth -type d -empty -delete; }
Of course, you might want to extend that to give
its own --help and to diagnose a missing argument.
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