Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problems restoring database on Mac - unsupported rmdir -v

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Hi,

Where in the scripts is rmdir called ?

-v option usually means verbose output. It can be safely removed.

NAME
       rmdir - remove empty directories

SYNOPSIS
       rmdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

DESCRIPTION
       Remove the DIRECTORY(ies), if they are empty.

       --ignore-fail-on-non-empty

              ignore each failure that is solely because a directory

              is non-empty

       -p, --parents
              remove DIRECTORY and its ancestors; e.g., 'rmdir -p a/b/c' is 
similar to 'rmdir a/b/c a/b a'

       -v, --verbose
              output a diagnostic for every directory processed

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit


Am Mittwoch, 6. November 2013, 12:00:06 schrieb Sebastian Hilbert:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. November 2013, 09:14:22 schrieb Busser, Jim:
> > On Mac OS,
> > 
> >     rmdir
> > 
> > supports only [-p] for the removal of parent directories
> > 
> >     
> > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Ma
> >     nP
> > 
> > ages/man1/rmdir.1.html
> > 
> > So can the
> > 
> >     -v
> > 
> > be dispensed with?
> > 
> > Also, following multiple attempts, I ended up with more than a dozen
> > working directories all at the root level.  Shouldn't such working
> > directories containing copies of backup files be written inside
> > 
> >     /tmp/
> > 
> > ??
> 
> Unless I am wrong (which could be) the files are generated in the directory
> where you are calling the script from. This might not be the directory where
> your script is.
> 
> If you happen to *be* at root level calling a script in another directory
> likely creates the output in the directory you are in, not where the script
> is in.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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