From: dfawcus+lists-tuhs@employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [TUHS] rm command
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:58:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425215858.GA1568@accordion.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C15B0B7C-EC7E-44E3-ACF2-E8461C2C49E8@jctaylor.com>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:53:26PM +0000, William Corcoran wrote:
> Agreed. Plus, it’s unmistakable that rm meant “remove” when you examine her sister “rmdir.”
>
> I think it’s a bit more interesting to uncover why rm does not remove directories by default thereby obviating the need for rmdir—-especially since the potentially nightmarish incantation of “rm -rf” does include files, folders and just about everything else in between.
Maybe because rm could just be wrapper around unlink,
whereas rmdir also had to remove '.' and '..' before
unlinking the directory?
Or maybe just symmetry with mkdir which had to use mknod,
and manual population of '.' and '..'?
DF
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 20:22 Eric Blood
2018-04-25 21:23 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 21:33 ` John P. Linderman
2018-04-25 21:53 ` William Corcoran
2018-04-25 21:58 ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2018-04-25 22:09 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-25 22:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-27 16:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-27 16:58 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-27 18:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-27 18:17 ` Pete Wright
2018-04-28 16:33 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-04-28 18:01 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-28 18:51 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-04-26 2:19 Doug McIlroy
2018-04-26 9:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-04-27 16:42 Noel Chiappa
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