Re: Overwrite Output Directory?

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:51 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Would it be useful to add a command-line option to dvdauthor to delete 
> the contents of the output directory if it exists?
> 
> Naturally this would be done safely, using the same logic as the 
> dvddirdel script—only delete files that look like part of a DVD-Video 
> directory structure, nothing else. (I’ve been burned by more general 
> directory-deletion functions myself :).)
> 
> Perhaps add a “-O” option which specifies the output directory like 
> “-o”, but also overwrites its contents, e.g.
> 
>      dvdauthor -o dir -x ctlfile
> 
> appends to any existing contents of dir, whereas
> 
>      dvdauthor -O dir -x ctlfile
> 
> would start dir afresh.

That seems like too subtle a difference.  There should be a separate
boolean option to erase the output directory.

Ben.

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