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minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·5 days agoI don’t understand the eagerness of most people to go nuclear by adding potentially dangerous arguments when not required. Use rmdir to remove a directory you expect to be empty, not rm -rf
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoIt’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.
I don’t understand the eagerness of most people to go nuclear by adding potentially dangerous arguments when not required.
Use
rmdirto remove a directory you expect to be empty, notrm -rfIt’s because they know how to use rm -rf, and they don’t know how to use rmdir. Honestly, I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever successfully removed a directory with rmdir. I always wind up using something else.