Hi all, the behaviour of rm from last stable coreutils 8.1 is quite different from previous 7.6 one. When using new rm lots of strange message appear: rm: invalid argument: `', for example when run make in libxt sources. Moreover some scrips which until now have removed files don't work with new rm.
Example: Previous rm prints message "No such file or directory" and removes files: $ rm --version | head -n 1 rm (GNU coreutils) 7.6 $ touch a b c; rm a b "" c; ls rm: cannot remove `': No such file or directory $ New 8.1 rm prints another message "invalid argument" and DOESN'T remove files: # rm --version | head -n 1 rm (GNU coreutils) 8.1 # touch a b c; rm a b "" c; ls rm: invalid argument: `' a b c # This problem arises when variable isn't defined, for example rm "$FILE". Is this a bug or a new feature of rm 8.1? Should all scripts be rewritten (test if file really exist and then remove it) or new rm 8.2 will again remove files? Thanks. -- Ladislav Hagara http://www.sourcemage.org/
