How to delete current directory

How to delete current directory

[zzapper]

Hi
Don't know whether this is useful/dangerous.

How to delete current directory (and any files) picking up directory name 
from $PWD (you also need to move out of directory first)



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Re: How to delete current directory

[Marc Chantreux]

hi,

  alias lrm='cd ..; rm -rf $OLDPWD'

regards
mc

zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> Don't know whether this is useful/dangerous.
> 
> How to delete current directory (and any files) picking up directory name 
> from $PWD (you also need to move out of directory first)
> 
> 
> 

Re: How to delete current directory

[zzapper]

Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr> wrote in
news:44AD1F50.8010705@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr: 

> hi,
> 
>   alias lrm='cd ..; rm -rf $OLDPWD'
> 
> regards
> mc
Like it, I was cleaning up some old directories which had similar numeric 
hard to remember names.
zzapper


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Re: How to delete current directory

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jul 6,  4:33pm, Marc Chantreux wrote:
} 
}   alias lrm='cd ..; rm -rf $OLDPWD'

I'd suggest a small change:

    alias ;rm='cd .. && rm -rf $OLDPWD'

If for any reason the "cd" were to fail, unlikely as that may be, you
wouldn't want to rm the wrong $OLDPWD.

Re: How to delete current directory

[Marc Chantreux]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I'd suggest a small change:
>     alias ;rm='cd .. && rm -rf $OLDPWD'
> If for any reason the "cd" were to fail, unlikely as that may be, you
> wouldn't want to rm the wrong $OLDPWD.

cd failed ? all right : don't use lrm in / ! ;)

Re: How to delete current directory

[zzapper]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote in 
news:060706100353.ZM6522@torch.brasslantern.com:

> On Jul 6,  4:33pm, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> } 
> }   alias lrm='cd ..; rm -rf $OLDPWD'
> 
> I'd suggest a small change:
> 
>     alias ;rm='cd .. && rm -rf $OLDPWD'
> 
> If for any reason the "cd" were to fail, unlikely as that may be, you
> wouldn't want to rm the wrong $OLDPWD.
> 
> 
Is there are mechanism in zsh which will allow the rm -r to start off in 
confirm mode ie "do you want to delete this file" and then choose "all"??


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Re: How to delete current directory

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jul 7, 11:13am, zzapper wrote:
} Subject: Re: How to delete current directory
}
} >     alias lrm='cd .. && rm -rf $OLDPWD'
} > 
} > If for any reason the "cd" were to fail, unlikely as that may be, you
} > wouldn't want to rm the wrong $OLDPWD.
} > 
} > 
} Is there are mechanism in zsh which will allow the rm -r to start off in 
} confirm mode ie "do you want to delete this file" and then choose "all"??

    unalias lrm
    function lrm {
        setopt localoptions glob_dots no_rm_star_silent
        cd .. || return
	rm -rf $OLDPWD/* && rmdir $OLDPWD
	[[ ! -d $OLDPWD ]] || { cd $OLDPWD && return 1 }
    }

I rigged it so that if you say "no" you don't even change directories.
You could even throw rm_start_wait onto the end of the setopt if you
are extra-paranoid.

Unfortunately saying "no" doesn't cause "rm" to return a failure status,
so the "rmdir" is attempted either way.

Aside to zsh-workers:  It'd be nice if I didn't have to setopt glob_dots
there, but
    rm -rf $OLDPWD/*(D)
does not trigger rm_star handling because "*(D)" != "*".  That seems a
bad thing.

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Re: How to delete current directory

[zzapper]

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote in news:060708113648.ZM8815
@torch.brasslantern.com:

> function lrm {
>         setopt localoptions glob_dots no_rm_star_silent
>         cd .. || return
>      rm -rf $OLDPWD/* && rmdir $OLDPWD
>      [[ ! -d $OLDPWD ]] || { cd $OLDPWD && return 1 }
>     }
> 
BS
That's cool displays directory name before you confirm delete


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