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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Message #36 received at 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>, 
 Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, 21084 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21084: rm appears to no longer be POSIX compliant (as of
 2013 edition) re: deleting empty dirs and files under <path>/.
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 01:15:07 -0700

Linda Walsh wrote:
> find, by itself, has no way to remove all of the items under a
> tree even if you own them all.

That's not a problem.  Have 'find' call 'rm'.  Something like this, say:

find . ! -name . -prune -exec rm -fr {} +

So there's no need to change 'rm'.

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