Computational complexity of rm & ls

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1541 at zen.UUCP> frank at zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:
>Maybe adding a '-A' (for All, harder to type than '-a') option to rm would
>be justified.  No doubt doing so would break jillions of scripts.  :-)

New options aren't likely to break existing scripts.
However, I don't understand the problem.  "rm -r ." seems sufficient.