Re: `rmdir .` doesn't work in 2.4

Eric Lammerts (eric@lammerts.org)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:48:53 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:
> "rmdir `pwd`" is required to fail (at least under csh, bash, ksh) if the
> path component contains a white space and thereof it can't be a valid
> replacement for Andreas "rmdir ." which was what Al initially suggested.
>
> Yes, I'm very pickey about that; but hey, I don't want to force anyone
> to write GNU/Linux like rms; just valid shell code. :)

Of course you should do rmdir "`pwd`"
But this is a userspace issue.

Eric

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