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dir2clean
2011 Sep 23
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should dir(all=TRUE) return "." and ".."?
...UE, include.dirs=TRUE)
does not. I always filter out the "." and ".." entries
and was wondering if anyone would mind if dir(all=TRUE)
just omitted them? It might make recursive file operations
like cleaning out a directory safer, as
unlink(recursive=TRUE, dir(all=TRUE, "dirToClean"))
might start attacking dirToClean/.., then dirToClean/../..,
etc., until your disk is empty.
> dir.create(tdir <- tempfile("tdir"))
> file.create(file.path(tdir, c(".dotFile", "noDotFile")))
[1] TRUE TRUE
> dir.create(file.path(tdir, "....