Re: [TUHS] rm command

Agreed. Plus, it’s unmistakable that rm meant “remove” when you examine her sister “rmdir.” I think it’s a bit more interesting to uncover why rm does not remove directories by default thereby obviating the need for rmdir—-especially since the potentially nightmarish incantation of “rm -rf” does include files, folders and just about everything else in between. Bill Corcoran On Apr 25, 2018, at 5:36 PM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com<mailto:jpl.jpl@gmail.com>> wrote: Another country heard from.<http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue49/fischer.html> I doubt the Robert Morris story, given that a command as fundamental as "rm" must have come about very early in the development, and there isn't a pattern of naming commands after their authors. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Eric Blood <winkywooster@gmail.com<mailto:winkywooster@gmail.com>> wrote: I came across this yesterday: I was curious if there's any truth to it. I found http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl and was poking around but couldn't determine when the rm command came about. Thoughts? -- Eric Blood winkywooster@gmail.com<mailto:winkywooster@gmail.com>