Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:34:30 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: markf@prophecy.com.au Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: rm with no arguments... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990126233232.12936A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01be49c0$3aba29e0$297f15cb@prophecy.com.au>
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Maybe it's just me being stupid but, I've always just aliases rm in my
profile to a -f .
Keith
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Mark at Prophecy Technologies Support Centre wrote:
> 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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