On 20/11/2013 17:56, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:47:38PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
On 18/11/2013 16:29, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:55:52PM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
In coreutils 8.21-7.1.3.
It has been standard to use "." in a directo
On 18/11/2013 16:29, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 03:55:52PM -0800, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
In coreutils 8.21-7.1.3.
It has been standard to use "." in a directory to mean it's contents
on a recursive or copy (compare cp -al src/. dst/.).
However, "find dir/. -type d -empty -d
On 18/11/2013 20:04, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/18/2013 06:20 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>> However, "find dir/. -type d -empty -delete" works, but exits with
>>> a failure code causing scripts to break.
>>>
>> This behavior is required by POSIX.
On 18/11/2013 16:15, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/18/2013 04:55 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
In coreutils 8.21-7.1.3.
It has been standard to use "." in a directory to mean it's contents
on a recursive or copy (compare cp -al src/. dst/.).
However, "find dir/. -type d -empty -delete" works, but
They don't require it for the case of "find ."?
or cp -al a/. b/.
?
Are you saying we need an alternate core utils?
