Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:42:36 +1100 From: "Mark at Prophecy Technologies Support Centre" <mark@prophecy.com.au> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: rm with no arguments... Message-ID: <000e01be49c0$3aba29e0$297f15cb@prophecy.com.au>
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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...}
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