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Remove a non empty directory

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9931: closed (Remove a non empty directory)
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:19:02 +0000

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From: "Olivier LE GUEN" <olg28 <at> gmx.fr>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Remove a non empty directory
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:55:47 +0100

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Hello,

 I use Putty to connect my ReadyNas Ultra2 in SSH mode. 
 My problem is I can't remove a non empty directory because there's no "-r" option in "rmdir".
 How can I have a recursive function ?

 Thanks,

 Best regards,

 Olivier

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Olivier LE GUEN <olg28 <at> gmx.fr>
Cc: 9931-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9931: Remove a non empty directory
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:55 -0600

tag 9931 notabug
thanks

On 11/01/2011 04:55 AM, Olivier LE GUEN wrote:
>   My problem is I can't remove a non empty directory because there's no "-r" option in "rmdir".
>   How can I have a recursive function ?

Thanks for the report.  However, this is unlikely to be changed in 
'rmdir', because POSIX already standardized 'rm -r' as the way to 
recursively remove directories.  So many people are used to 'rm -r' 
doing what you are asking for, that adding an extension of 'rmdir -r' as 
an alternative would only cause confusion, not to mention that the 
extension would not be available everywhere like 'rm -r' already is.

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