[ILUG] Re: rmdir --exclude=foo-dir?

Brian Foster blf at utvinternet.ie
Fri Feb 10 16:24:33 GMT 2012


  [more profuse apologies if this happens to double-post...]

>On 02/06/2012 09:18 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> My logic is failing me, usually does.
>> How can I run:
>>  rmdir  /home/frank/*
>> but exclude my nfs mountpoints
>
>Do this first:
>
> for mp in mp1 mp2; do touch ~/$mp/.dont_rmdir; done

 This is much better than my solution, albeit
 it does assume  (1) The dirs are writable;
 and  (2) The dirs are in the same state (either
 mounted or not-mounted) whenever the ‘rmdir’
 is run later.

cheers!
	-blf-

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