Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:33:13 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: markf@prophecy.com.au Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm with no arguments... Message-ID: <199901270833.IAA01052@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:42:36 %2B1100." <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:
[.....]
The man page doesn't specify ``file'' as optional, therefore it's a
usage error and must be warned about.
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