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RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call

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Message #134 received at 15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 15926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>,
 Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Subject: Re: bug#15926: RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make
 'rm' use 'remove' call
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:06:41 -0700

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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.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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