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Re: rm -f
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Eric Blake |
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Re: rm -f |
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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:27:48 -0700 |
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According to Patrick Welche on 12/14/2007 9:19 AM:
> There already is a safety check in libtool at
>
> # Don't error if the file doesn't exist and rm -f was used.
>
> but then there are all the cases where $RM is used. Invent a shell
> function which does rm -f if its argument isn't empty?
The general idiom for this is 'rm -f dummy $files', so that even if $files
is empty, you are still passing an argument to rm, and the -f avoids
failure on the dummy argument.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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- rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/14
- Re: rm -f,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/16
- Re: rm -f, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/16
- Re: rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/19
- Re: rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/20
- Re: rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/21
- Re: rm -f, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/21
- Re: rm -f, Patrick Welche, 2007/12/21
- Re: rm -f, Ralf Wildenhues, 2007/12/22