Some improvements to rm(1)

[Eitan Adler]

On 26 April 2013 08:22, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:56:10PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> >> Anyone have thoughts on the following?
>
>> >> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384
>> >> Author: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
>> >> Date:   Thu Apr 25 22:14:49 2013 -0400
>
>> >>     Take some improvements from DragonFlyBSD:
>> >>       - add const where appropriate
>> >>       - add static where appropriate
>> >>       - fix a whitespace issues
>> >
>> > The no-op changes look more correct to me.
>
>> > I think the -x option seems a bit odd.  What is the use case?  At a
>> > first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves.
>
>> It goes along with cp -x, find -x, and others.
>
>> Quick example #1: You have /usr/ports /usr/ports/distfiles as
>> different mount points it lets you wipe /usr/ports without wiping your
>> distfile cache.
>
>> Quick example #2: You have /usr/src/ null mounted in every user's
>> /home/ and you want to wipe one home directory.
>
> Hmm, isn't this already possible using  find -x DIR -delete  ?

Yes, rm's functionality can be fully replicated by find.


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Eitan Adler