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bug#7775: rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#7775: rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:01:21 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> rm normally produces an error when you delete a nonexistent file. However,
> under -f, you get no error message. I would argue this is a bug.
Thank you for the bug report. But this is not a bug. That is the
correct and desired behavior. That is the way it is supposed to work.
This is documented in the manual.
$ info coreutils 'rm invocation'
`-f'
`--force'
Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user. Ignore any
previous `--interactive' (`-i') option.
This is core behavior and is also standardized across all Unix
systems. Here is a pointer to the online standards documentation.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html
Bob