New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Worth submitting a pull request to add –dry-run flag to rm?
Ask HN: Worth submitting a pull request to add –dry-run flag to rm?
4 by logicallee | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Is it worth submitting a high-quality pull request to add a --dry-run flag to the basic Linux rm command (rm --dry-run -rf), so users can quickly preview all files that will be deleted before actually executing the command? The current workaround of piping yes n to rm -i is not a perfect solution and doesn't match rm's behavior because it asks if you want to descend into a directory, which requires y, nor do several other workarounds (find, ls, etc) match its behavior exactly. I've contributed to open source but haven't contributed to Linux source code before but I think adding this flag would benefit users. Would a pull request like this be rejected or have a chance of being merged?
4 by logicallee | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Is it worth submitting a high-quality pull request to add a --dry-run flag to the basic Linux rm command (rm --dry-run -rf), so users can quickly preview all files that will be deleted before actually executing the command? The current workaround of piping yes n to rm -i is not a perfect solution and doesn't match rm's behavior because it asks if you want to descend into a directory, which requires y, nor do several other workarounds (find, ls, etc) match its behavior exactly. I've contributed to open source but haven't contributed to Linux source code before but I think adding this flag would benefit users. Would a pull request like this be rejected or have a chance of being merged?
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