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<<On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:58:54 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@brierdr.com> said:

> This allows:

> 	rm -rf ""

> To behave the same as:

> 	rm -f ""

> Which is to say that no diagnostic will be emitted if you're forcing 
> the operation (and ignoring errors).

According to the Standard, only [ENOENT] diagnostics should be
suppressed.

-GAWollman