Re: Recursive file remove
Re: Recursive file remove
- Subject: Re: Recursive file remove
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:05:04 -0500
On Aug 14, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Michael Ash wrote:
> First is the more obvious one, where you have the semantics of doing
> an 'rm' on a directory without passing the -r flag. If the directory
> is empty, it's deleted. If it's not, the command fails.
Not to flog a dead horse, but 'rm' doesn't do that. Without '-r', rm always fails on a directory, even if it's empty. Only 'rmdir' will delete a directory if empty and fail otherwise.
Regards,
Ken
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