>Number: 187264 >Category: bin >Synopsis: rm command: rm -r file1 file2 "" does not remove existing >files or directories >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 04 21:50:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: John Wolfe >Release: FreeBSD 9.2 (PC-BSD 9.2) >Organization: Xinuos, Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD sapphire.nj.sco.com 9.2-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p12 #0: Thu Jan 16 21:12:30 UTC 2014 r...@amd64-builder.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description: When the gmake/make clean target contains a command of the form rm -rf "a.out" "$(DSYM)" main.o main.d the command fails to remove any of the existing files if DSYM is null. The '-f' option hides the error associated with the zero length file name, but gives no indication that, in fact, NO files/directories have been removed. >How-To-Repeat: Use the following script to see the problem rm.bug.sh: ====================== #! /bin/sh set -x cat > file_1 << !EOF 12345 How no brown cow !EOF cp file_1 file_2 cp file_1 file_3 # The following command should remove file_[123], but does not. # The '-r' implies the '-d' option - attempt to remove directories # as well as other types of files. The "" results in an error # when treated as a possible directory. # # $ rm -r "" # rm: fts_open: No such file or directory # # which is a valid error, but none of the arguments are removed. # # When the following command is run without the '-r', all three # files are removed. rm -r "file_1" "" file_[23] ls -l # Yet a "rm -r " with a non-existant file in the list, will remove # all existing files. rm -r "file_1" "xxx" file_2 ls -l >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
