Fair! Upvoted. I guess I'm not likely to type that into the shell, or if I do, I then tab-complete to expand it. I could definitely see myself using that in a

Fair! Upvoted. I guess I'm not likely to type that into the shell, or if I do, I then tab-complete to expand it. I could definitely see myself using that in a shell script, though. I tend to do validity checks there: if ! [ -d "$TSTDIR" ]; echo "$TSTDIR not found, stupid" >&2; exit 1; fi but that's kind of irrelevant, since if I need it to exist then I won't be removing it. Plus, I could totally see myself doing if [ -d "$TESTDIR" ]; then rm -rf "$TSTDIR"/etc fi