Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Yeah, but without even invoking find:
>
> rmdir dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur dir \
> || mkdir -p dir/new dir/tmp dir/cur
>
> Robust, safe, trivial.
Hooray for simplicity. :)
> People always seem to forget that rmdir is perfectly safe, in that
> it won't remove empty directories.
I'm sure you meant just the opposite. It won't remove non-empty dirs.
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