Re: Removing conffiles AND directories in /etc
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, 2014-10-26, 10:57:
> >"rmdir >/etc/foo/bar/ >/dev/null 2>&1 || true" is always a safe
> >operation...
>
> Instead of ignoring (and hiding) all errors, it's better use
> --ignore-fail-on-non-empty.
That's a GNU coreutils-ism :-)
But yes, it might be better to use "rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty"
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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