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# 1  
Old 10-26-2012
Bash - command is executing but do nothing without complaining
Hello.
This part of script do nothing but no complain.
Here the directory content :
Quote:
/root
/root/.ssh
/root/.ssh/config ( owner root mode 700 )
/root/.ssh/list_user ( owner root mode 644 )
The script run by root
Code:
cd /root
CMD="rmdir -p -v --ignore-fail-on-non-empty  .ssh"
echo $CMD
$CMD

The ouput
Code:
linux:~/bin # ./test_05
rmdir -p -v --ignore-fail-on-non-empty .ssh
rmdir: removing directory, `.ssh'
linux:~/bin # ls /root/.ssh
config  list_user
linux:~/bin #

# 2  
Old 10-26-2012
its doing exactly what it should be doing, the rmdir command wont delete the directory because it has files/directories inside it.

The error message is being suppresed by the option "--ignore-fail-on-non-empty".

Remove the option and you will see the error output, use rm -rf and the directory will be deleted.
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# 3  
Old 10-26-2012
I suppose that ignore-fail-on-non-empty just suppresses the error message and sets the exit status

Code:
`--ignore-fail-on-non-empty'
     Ignore each failure to remove a directory that is solely because
     the directory is non-empty.

`-p'
`--parents'
     Remove DIRECTORY, then try to remove each component of DIRECTORY.
     So, for example, `rmdir -p a/b/c' is similar to `rmdir a/b/c a/b
     a'.  As such, it fails if any of those directories turns out not
     to be empty.  Use the `--ignore-fail-on-non-empty' option to make
     it so such a failure does not evoke a diagnostic and does not
     cause `rmdir' to exit unsuccessfully.

As you probably already know, if you intend to remove the .ssh directory and its content, you should use rm instead.
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# 4  
Old 10-27-2012
Thank
Thank you for helping.

I come from ms world ( nobody is perfect ) and it is not the first time I made this kind of error.

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