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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:29:13 -0700

On 09/07/2012 06:25 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I don't want to get the shell involved

That's not a reasonable constraint.  The shell is
a standard tool for solving this sort of problem,
and involving the shell solves this problem.