Re: extend rm docs (was: slight 'rm --help' confusion)

[G. Vamsee Krishna]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steven Schubiger wrote:

> On  7 Apr, G. Vamsee Krishna wrote:
> 
> : Would be nice though if it says that `rm' does the same thing to 
> : directories too. I still remember using `rmdir' on an empty directory 
> : about 2 years ago when I started using GNU/Linux.
> 
> Could we have some more opiniated input on this issue by others?
> If the suggestion gets accepted, I'll poke around a patch.
> 

Sure. I think the docs should be as helpful as possible to the newbies and 
man/info is the place where most of them start. Believe me, it will take 
some time for them to know that `rm' deletes directories too :)

A patch in this direction would be really helpful. But we need to hear 
from the bosses first.

Vamsee

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