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From: Geoffrey Odhner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: extend rm docs (was: slight 'rm --help' confusion)
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:23:53 -0400
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Steven Schubiger wrote:
On 7 Apr, G
On 8 Apr, Geoffrey Odhner wrote:
: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Steven Schubiger wrote:
:
: On 7 Apr, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
:
: : Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing
: : to directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty
: : directory
On 7 Apr, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
: Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing to
: directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty directory
: about 2 years ago when I started using GNU/Linux.
Could we have some more opiniated input on this issue by others?
If
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:45:58PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
rmdir can still be useful as a less-dangerous alternative to rm -r;
rmdir * will only wipe empty directories, although I was overjoyed when
I found this worked:
$ find dirname -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v -- '{}' ';'
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steven Schubiger wrote:
On 7 Apr, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
: Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing to
: directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty directory
: about 2 years ago when I started using GNU/Linux.
Could we have
hey guys,
i've just seen something that could maybe be improved. The line in the
quickhelp screen for the rm command ('rm --help') that reads:
-r, -R, --recursive remove the contents of directories recursively
was slightly confusing to me. I didn't figure that it would also delete the
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Daniel wrote:
It would probably help someone whos new at linux if it would read
'removes the directory specified and all of its content recursively'.
Removes the contents of the directory specified and then
removes the directory itself. I think that's the proper way to
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing to
directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty directory
about 2 years ago when I started using GNU/Linux.
rmdir can still be useful as a less-dangerous alternative to rm
