Subject: bug#45924: RFE: rmdir -r: recursively remove [empty] directories under the target.

From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:15:26 -0800

On 2021/01/18 08:08, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> find(1) can also ... [various examples of find's usefulness elided]
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
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	As I stated in the original message:

On 2021/01/16 16:29, L A Walsh wrote:
> Yes, you could do it some other way, like by using 'find',
> but since it is about removing directories, having the option
> under rmdir would seem a natural place to put it.

Thank you Bernhard, but numerous ways to do it with find don't 
really have the simplicity, of using "remove dir" for its
"raison d'être":

  rmdir -r DIR

  vs. find:

  find DIR -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} +

One could also use find to implement recursive file removal instead of
using 'rm', but that's hardly simple or straightforward as "rm -r"
either.