Re: Suggestion for rmdir

[Adam Jimerson]

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Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Adam Jimerson on 12/26/2008 4:14 PM:
> 
> Thanks for the report.  However, coreutils use GNU getopt semantics, where
> unambiguous abbreviations of long options are recognized.  Therefore, you
> need not type the full name, and can get by with:
> 
> rmdir --i
> 
> until such day that we introduce another long option whose name begins
> with i.  Meanwhile, your claim that 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty' is
> equivalent to 'rm -r' is false; a recursive 'rm' deletes regular files to
> cause the directory to become empty and thus removable, while 'rmdir' only
> removes directories that were already empty or contain only empty
> subdirectories also being removed.
> 

If that is the case then can that be added to ether the help, man, or
info pages?  I am using openSUSE 11.0 with version 6.11 of the GNU Core
Utilities and non of those pages said that you can shorten it to just
- --i making me think that I had to type the whole thing.
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