[Fwd: Re: find did not work]

[Michael Siebenborn <michael@siebenborn.net>]

Sorry, forgot to CC: to the list.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: find did not work
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:32:10 +0200
From: Michael Siebenborn <michael@siebenborn.net>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
References: <[🔎] 20041021065500.M91170@doodoo.darktech.org> 
<[🔎] 20041025223349.GA18287@debil2.z-oil.de> 
<[🔎] 20041028140111.GE14160@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>



> > find debian -type d | xargs rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> > rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
>
> What does that mean ^ ?


> based on an educated guess of what it means, I think it's a problem with
> rmdir saying "Too many arguments",

Indeed, this is german. But it means "Too few arguments"

Example:

me@host:~$rmdir
rmdir: zu wenige Argumente
,,rmdir --help" gibt weitere Informationen.
me@host:~$export LC_ALL=C
me@mhost:~$rmdir
rmdir: too few arguments
Try `rmdir --help' for more information.

Seems to me, the find command doesn't find any directory to delete.

Regards,
Michael