Re: Change to rmdir flag?

[Steven Lowson]

Hi Eric,

I did not know you could abbreviate unambiguous flags thanks for the tip.

Steve

On 29/06/12 00:16, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/28/2012 04:48 PM, Steven Lowson wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I would like to propose a change to one of the rmdir flags specifically
> > --ignore-fail-on-non-empty to something a bit more succinct. A more
> > suitable name would be -force or -f.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  However, we're unlikely to burn a short
> letter without existing precedence in some other implementation, since
> that risks collisions with future standardization.  But do you realize
> that long options can be abbreviated if the abbreviation is unambiguous?
>   Therefore, 'rmdir --i' is equivalent to 'rmdir
> --ignore-fail-on-non-empty', which is almost as good as your proposed
> 'rmdir -f' and shorter than your proposed 'rmdir --force'.