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| author | Krzysztof Goj <krzysztof.goj@gmail.com> | 2012-01-22 01:39:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-08-14 18:54:16 +0200 |
| commit | fdc2da7165d93c8065365999341173ad2a818833 (patch) | |
| tree | 25ef66176016b61abb71b56175b6cdb42fb54ee4 /NEWS | |
| parent | 46afefaaa8ea95b5eb63a62792774cd18738234a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-fdc2da7165d93c8065365999341173ad2a818833.tar.xz | |
rm: new option --dir (-d) to remove empty directories
Add new option to rm (-d/--dir), which allows removal of
empty directories, while still safely disallowing removal
of non-empty ones.
This improves compatibility with Mac OS X and BSD systems,
which honor the -d option.
* src/remove.c (rm_fts): Remove empty directories when requested.
* src/remove.h (rm_options) [remove_empty_directories]: New member.
* src/rm.c (long_opts, usage, main): Update usage and option parsing.
(rm_option_init): Initialize the new member.
* src/mv.c (rm_option_init): Initialize the new member.
* tests/rm/d-1: New test case - successfully delete empty dir.
* tests/rm/d-2: New test case - refuse to delete nonempty dir.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add them.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -2,11 +2,20 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?] +** Bug fixes + df now fails when the list of mounted file systems (/etc/mtab) cannot be read, yet the file system type information is needed to process certain options like -a, -l, -t and -x. [This bug was present in "the beginning".] +** New features + + rm now accepts the --dir (-d) option which makes it remove empty directories. + Since removing empty directories is relatively safe, this option can be + used as a part of the alias rm='rm --dir'. This improves compatibility + with Mac OS X and BSD systems which also honor the -d option. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.18 (2012-08-12) [stable] |