Re: rmdir of one's pwd (was Re: rmdir of a busy directory)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 13 Feb 1999 02:19:21 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, CaT wrote:

> Matthias Urlichs wrote the following:
> >
> > Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de> writes:
> > >
> > > This fragment relies on rmdir(1) failing when $file contains "."- So the
> > > actual problem is gcc/fixincludes requiring "rmdir $LIB/." to fail (Of
> > > cause this can easily be worked around by modifying fixincludes, but is a
> > > different topic).
> > >
> > So get it fixed. Replacing "find ." with "find *" should work nicely.

find . -mindepth 1
will take care of all hidden files quite nicely.

>
> Unless, ofcourse, you also want to 'find' through any hidden
> files and dirs in that directory, or, that directory is so
> large that it wont fit in any of the buffers it would have to.
>
> (I've had the problem in the past where grep blah * would fail
> cos there were jsut too many files in the current dir)

find . -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 grep blah

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