Re: Reliable/safe way of removing empty maildirs?
On 07Dec2007 08:12, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| * Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> [12-07-07 01:38]:
| > 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.
| >
| > People always seem to forget that rmdir is perfectly safe, in that it
| > won't remove empty directories.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| *only* removes empty directories :^)
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you Todd and Patrick! Code correct, documentation busted!
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