Re: Wishing rmdir had a prompt

[Lady Aleena]

I thank everyone who got involved with my little wish. I did not mean 
for it to explode like this. I am entirely comfortable letting the whole 
idea drop since there appears to be little to no support for it. I was 
just an idle wish that crossed my mind that I wanted to share.

Again, thank you for reading it and taking the time to respond.

Have a very nice day!
Lady Aleena

On 2019-09-02 11:22, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 9/2/19 10:03 AM, Sami Kerola wrote:
> > [...] I don't see any problem adding --interactive long
> > only option.
>
> a) Bloat:
> Apart from the --parents option, rmdir(1) is just a simple
> wrapper around rmdir(2).
> Just recently I've been asked (off-list) why src/true.c needs
> to have 80+ lines while 3 lines would be enough.
>
> b) Alternatives:
> The case is trivial enough to have some little prompt wrapper around 
> it.
> E.g. a bit contrived but works:
>   $ xargs -p rmdir DIR </dev/null
>   rmdir DIR ?...y
>
> c) As Kaz already wrote: it's easy enough to re-create an empty 
> directory
> which has been deleted accidentally.
>
> d) My personal opinion: I'm not in favor of those "do you really want 
> to XYZ?"
> questions - especially in the case one just explicitly told the tool 
> exactly
> to "do XYZ".  Similarly, one could argument why not to add it to sleep,
> kill, cat, and so on.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny