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#15926
RFE: unlink command already uses 'unlink' call; make 'rm' use 'remove' call
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Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:58:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug, patch
Merged with 15943
Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On 20/11/2013 22:32, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 01:48 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> Isn't it my computer? How do I override such a refusal?
> $ rm -rv "$(pwd -P)"
> removed directory: ‘/tmp/xx’
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That doesn't give the same behavior and isn't what I want.
Compare to "cp".
Say I want to create a copy of what is in dir "a"
inside of a pre-existing dir "b". In dir "a" are files and
sub dirs. On some of those subdirs, other file systems *may*
be mounted -- EITHER in the dir immediately under "a", OR lower:
I would use "cp -alx a/. b/."
Sometime later, I want to remove the contents of 'b' w/o disturbing
'b'. 'b' may have file systems mounted under it or not.
Again, I would use the "dot" notation. "rm -fxr b/."
"rm -fxr <path>/b", as you suggest isn't the same thing.
Directories are containers. I want to work just with the
contents -- not the directory itself.
So how do I override the refusal -- and get the same results?
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