bug#42358: mv w/mkdir -p of destination

2020-07-15 Thread Paul Eggert
On 7/14/20 3:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote: But I've found asking for features usually doesn't work and sometimes results in work to preclude future implementation of the feature. Reporting bugs also, often gets ignored until some large company reports the same problem or until it causes a serious

bug#42358: mv w/mkdir -p of destination

2020-07-14 Thread L A Walsh
Yeah, I'd thought about asking for this as well, like as maybe a "rmdir -r" or rmdir -rp where either the want of recursion implied going up to ancestors (since decending along a chain of directories would be a bit indeterminent, or requiring a redundant '-p', as well, as it would tell the program