====== rmdir for OSX ======

The Finder on OSX creates ''.DS_Store'' files in the directories to store its settings.
This makes removing directories from the command line quite complicated:
<code bash>
$ rmdir test
rmdir: test: Directory not empty
$ rm test/.DS_Store 
$ /bin/rmdir test
</code>

I wrote a small bash function to remove directories together with the contained ''.DS_Store'' file:
<code bash>
rmdir() {
for d in "$@"
do
	f="${d%/}/.DS_Store"
	if [ -f "${f}" ]
	then
		echo "removing ${f}"
	 	rm "${f}"
	fi
	/bin/rmdir "${d}" || ls -al "${d}"
done
}
</code>

With this function you can remove the directory at once:
<code bash>
$ rmdir test
removing test/.DS_Store
</code>

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