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From: | L A Walsh |
Subject: | bug#45924: RFE: rmdir -r: recursively remove [empty] directories under the target. |
Date: | Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:15:26 -0800 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) |
On 2021/01/18 08:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
find(1) can also ... [various examples of find's usefulness elided] Have a nice day, Berny
=== As I stated in the original message: On 2021/01/16 16:29, L A Walsh wrote:
Yes, you could do it some other way, like by using 'find', but since it is about removing directories, having the option under rmdir would seem a natural place to put it.
Thank you Bernhard, but numerous ways to do it with find don't really have the simplicity, of using "remove dir" for its
"raison d'être": rmdir -r DIR vs. find: find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} + One could also use find to implement recursive file removal instead of using 'rm', but that's hardly simple or straightforward as "rm -r" either.
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