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
