Re: rmdir -p foo/bar/nonexistent

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 4/10/2006 6:57 AM:
>    2. If the dir operand includes more than one pathname component,
> effects equivalent to the following command shall occur:
> 
>       rmdir -p $(dirname dir)"

And that looks like a bug in POSIX.  $(dirname dir) mishandles names with
a trailing newline before the / separator, and the listing should be
quoted to handle shell metacharacters in dir.  Once we figure out how
other implementations behave, we should write an aardvark that both
corrects this description and documents what happens with nonexistent subdirs.

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