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[wishlist] rm -rf to alter directories permissions if necessary


From: Yaroslav Halchenko
Subject: [wishlist] rm -rf to alter directories permissions if necessary
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:19:12 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

ATM (Debian jessie/sid with coreutils 8.23-3):

> mkdir -p d1/d2; touch d1/d2/f1; chmod -w d1/d2; rm -rf d1
rm: cannot remove ‘d1/d2/f1’: Permission denied

so to 'rm -rf d1' I need first to chmod +w all directories... although at times
fs not really an issue, but I am testing git-annex repositories with up to a
million of files.  Thus running both first recursive chmod and then rm -r
sounds (and feels) quite wasteful.  So I wondered to suggest/ask if
implementing alternation of the parent's directory permissions if --force would
be provided be a sensible extension to rm?

PS Please CC me -- I am not on the list

-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
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Research Scientist,            Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept.
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