Re: Could we have a flag to tell us which directories were actually removed?

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just had a situation where this would have been useful. I tried -v
> --ignore-fail-on-non-empty, but of course it told me about every
> directory it processed, which is fine, but not what I wanted.

Why add a new option?

While adding a new rmdir option may look simple, there
are larger implications that make it so you'd have to
provide significant justification.