From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 26 22:49:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06192 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from edison.dialix.com.au (edison.dialix.com.au [203.12.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06178 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@prophecy.com.au) Received: from prophecy.com.au (www.prophecy.com.au [203.12.2.244]) by edison.dialix.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/DIALixFlat) with ESMTP id RAA09979 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:49:06 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from mark@prophecy.com.au) Received: from dhcp1.prophecy.com.au ([203.21.127.41] helo=isaiah) by prophecy.com.au with smtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 105Ohu-0004b4-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:44:10 +1100 Reply-To: From: "Mark at Prophecy Technologies Support Centre" To: Subject: RE: rm with no arguments... Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:42:36 +1100 Message-ID: <000e01be49c0$3aba29e0$297f15cb@prophecy.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal Disposition-Notification-To: "Mark at Prophecy Technologies Support Centre" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA06188 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Hamilton, Wednesday, January 27, 1999 5:26 PM said: >On 3.0-STABLE from this past Saturday, rm -f with no arguments _does_ >complain. I can confirm this on 2.2.8 stable also (as of Dec98). Does anyone use a script where this hasn't produced output? The man page says it stays quiet if the file(s) mentioned on the command line don't exist. It doesn't say what happens if no command-line option is given. As a temporary work-around (just to shut it up), try specifying a "guaranteed dummy" filename as a dummy argument: rm -f dummy_file_9227182168627817267817863783678145.txt {etc...} ************************************************************ Markfried Fellensiek, Senior Technical Consultant Prophecy Technologies Pty Ltd 399 High Street Ashburton VIC 3147, Australia PH: (03) 9886 0899, FAX: (03) 9886 0269 e-mail: markf@prophecy.com.au web: www.prophecy.com.au ************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message