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Re: Suggestion for rmdir
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Adam Jimerson |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion for rmdir |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:36:26 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081112) |
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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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- Suggestion for rmdir, Adam Jimerson, 2008/12/27
- Re: Suggestion for rmdir, Eric Blake, 2008/12/27
- Re: Suggestion for rmdir,
Adam Jimerson <=
- Re: Suggestion for rmdir, Eric Blake, 2008/12/27
- Re: Suggestion for rmdir, Jim Meyering, 2008/12/27
- option abbreviation exceptions (was: Suggestion for rmdir), Eric Blake, 2008/12/29
- Re: option abbreviation exceptions, Eric Blake, 2008/12/29
- Re: option abbreviation exceptions, Jim Meyering, 2008/12/29
- Re: option abbreviation exceptions, Pádraig Brady, 2008/12/30
- Re: option abbreviation exceptions, Eric Blake, 2008/12/30
- Re: option abbreviation exceptions, Jim Meyering, 2008/12/29