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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/. |
Date: | Sun, 02 Aug 2015 01:15:07 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 |
Linda Walsh wrote:
find, by itself, has no way to remove all of the items under a tree even if you own them all.
That's not a problem. Have 'find' call 'rm'. Something like this, say: find . ! -name . -prune -exec rm -fr {} + So there's no need to change 'rm'.
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