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author | Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> | 2016-12-22 09:23:25 +1300 |
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committer | Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> | 2016-12-22 15:16:40 +1300 |
commit | f146f38cc63cc6a9d8bfb642bc955797d26338eb (patch) | |
tree | ddf1a9108a96b1390b73cc10a11359febf021bbe | |
parent | fc6a2fc60d142a7c56bde2a86b172da7ff5f40cd (diff) | |
download | openembedded-core-contrib-f146f38cc63cc6a9d8bfb642bc955797d26338eb.tar.gz |
lib/oe/path: add warning comment about oe.path.remove() with wildcarded filenames
Add a warning in the doc comment for oe.path.remove() about using that
function on paths that may contain wildcards in the actual
file/directory names.
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
-rw-r--r-- | meta/lib/oe/path.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/path.py b/meta/lib/oe/path.py index 804ecd5fea..d4685403c5 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oe/path.py +++ b/meta/lib/oe/path.py @@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ def copyhardlinktree(src, dst): copytree(src, dst) def remove(path, recurse=True): - """Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf""" + """ + Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf + NOTE: be careful about passing paths that may contain filenames with + wildcards in them (as opposed to passing an actual wildcarded path) - + since we use glob.glob() to expand the path. Filenames containing + square brackets are particularly problematic since the they may not + actually expand to match the original filename. + """ for name in glob.glob(path): try: os.unlink(name) |