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Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually remo
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed? |
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Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:50:57 -0600 |
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Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I just had a situation where this would have been useful. I tried -v
> --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, but of course it told me about every directory
> it processed, which is fine, but not what I wanted.
How about this?
$ mkdir -p 1/2/3 11
$ rmdir -v 1
rmdir: removing directory, 1
rmdir: 1: Directory not empty
$ echo $?
1
And this does not seem like the type of thing that needs to be
optimized for keyboard use but sounds more like something in a script.
In which case a little more verbose is okay. That leads me to this:
for dir in *; do
rmdir $dir && echo removed: $dir # or whatever you want to do here
done
Bob
- Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Reuben Thomas, 2007/08/15
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Jim Meyering, 2007/08/15
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Reuben Thomas, 2007/08/15
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Jim Meyering, 2007/08/16
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Andreas Schwab, 2007/08/16
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Jim Meyering, 2007/08/16
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Reuben Thomas, 2007/08/16
- Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?, Eric Blake, 2007/08/17
Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?,
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