On 11/21/2013 11:01 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I'm not sure it's useful enough functionality to expose, > and personally I'd use something like: > > children() { find "$1" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1; } > or > children() { find "$1" | sed '1d'; } > > and then... > > children $dir | xargs rm -r Except that it falls over in the presence of file names with newline, so you have to get fancier with find -print0 and xargs -0 to be robust. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org