GNU bug report logs - #21084
rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 07:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 23:17:09 +0200

On 08/01/2015 05:13 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> [...] for me, just the special option to allow "." or dir/. is far more
> important.

You're discussing several aspects at once - '.' as operand, stopping
the removal at file system boundaries, etc. - but this all sounds to me
as if you simply wanted this one, right?

  $ find '.' -mindepth 1 -xdev -delete

Have a nice day,
Berny
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