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bug#10819: [BUG][RM]
From: |
Voelker, Bernhard |
Subject: |
bug#10819: [BUG][RM] |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:31:59 +0100 |
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>
> > I think Davide's point is not about the # comment ... rm won't see
> > that on argv anyway. The point is that 'rm -f' does not complain about
> > missing operands while 'rm' does:
> >
> > $ rm
> > rm: missing operand
> > Try `rm --help' for more information.
> > $ rm -f
> > $
> >
> > According to the info, '-f' just silences error messages for files
> > which do not exist (and never to prompt for confirmation), but why
> > should it also affect the "missing operand" message?
>
> Two reasons:
>
> - that's what rm -f has always done
> - because that's more useful. Otherwise, "rm -rf $file_list" would
> have to be wrapped in code to handle specially the case in which
> $file_list is empty.
Good point.
That means, the info page could be enhanced to mention that
special case (see below).
Have a nice day,
Berny
>From 55d64bcdfdba4726c6e2668066bb25f4bfa6c0b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:29:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: document 'rm -f' better
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* doc/coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Mention that the option '-f' also
silences the message for missing operands which is useful in scripts
e.g. for "rm -f $file_list" when $file_list is empty.
* src/rm.c (usage): Likewise.
Reported by Jérémy Magrin in http://bugs.gnu.org/10819
---
doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +-
src/rm.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 02c3a2a..87624c2 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -8769,7 +8769,7 @@ The program accepts the following options. Also see
@ref{Common options}.
@itemx --force
@opindex -f
@opindex --force
-Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user.
+Ignore nonexistent files, missing operands and never prompt the user.
Ignore any previous @option{--interactive} (@option{-i}) option.
@item -i
diff --git a/src/rm.c b/src/rm.c
index db525d0..02809f2 100644
--- a/src/rm.c
+++ b/src/rm.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ usage (int status)
fputs (_("\
Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).\n\
\n\
- -f, --force ignore nonexistent files, never prompt\n\
+ -f, --force ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt\n\
-i prompt before every removal\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
--
1.7.7
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], address@hidden, 2012/02/15
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Eric Blake, 2012/02/15
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Davide Brini, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Jim Meyering, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Voelker, Bernhard, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Jim Meyering, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM],
Voelker, Bernhard <=
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Jim Meyering, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Voelker, Bernhard, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Eric Blake, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Jim Meyering, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Stefano Lattarini, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Eric Blake, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: [BUG][RM], Philip Rowlands, 2012/02/16
- bug#10819: POSIX will say running "rm -f" with no argument is OK, Stefano Lattarini, 2012/02/16