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bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is docu


From: Linda Walsh
Subject: bug#12339: Bug: rm -fr . doesn't dir depth first deletion yet it is documented to do so.
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:38:18 -0700
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Workaround:

  find . -delete

Bob
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not the first thing one one think of to rm a dir tree.

I didn't even know find had a delete op...
(use find alot, but 70% of the time it's to pipe into xargs...)






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