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Re: exit status of rm
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James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: exit status of rm |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:34:33 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:45:05PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> This puts the invocation of rm without arguments in the
> implementation's realm, where currently, coreutils is not consistent
> on what it returns:
>
> $ rm
> rm: missing operand
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
> $ echo $? # used improperly
> 1
> $ rm -f
> $ echo $? # all (zero) calls to unlink succeeded
> 0
Personally I think this is exactly the right way to do it (both
cases).
James.