Re: rm -rf and recursive nothing

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
>  > dev# ls -la pkgsrc/
>  > total 3
>  > drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  1024 Jul 20 22:27 .
>  > drwxr-xr-x  54 root  wheel  1536 Jul 20 22:27 ..
>  > dev# rm pkgsrc
>  > rm: pkgsrc: is a directory
>  > dev# rm -rf pkgsrc
>  > recursively remove pkgsrc?
>
> This might be a dumb question, but why don't you use rmdir?
> rmdir is the UNIX command to remove (empty) directories.
>
> Personally I have an alias rd=rmdir (and md=mkdir), which
> is a left-over from my old DOS days.  :-)
>
> By the way, shouldn't -f override any previous -i or -I
> option?  At least that's what I would expect.  You don't
> type -f without a reason.

This has been discussed (to death) before. I'd be all in for that, but 
other people weren't.

Sascha

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