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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
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:27:48PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
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> 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.
Elegant!
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