On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:10:05AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman scribbled: [snip] > By the way, your suggestion: > > > if you remove a file which you aren't sure whether > > it exists or not, it is nice to do > > > > rm -f /path/to/file || true > > > > instead of > > > > rm -f /path/to/file" > > is silly; the entire purpose of the '-f' option to rm is to ignore errors. By the way: the reason I wrote the above in such a form is simple - it was it is my habit to use -f in cases where I'm not sure whether the file exists. And this is the kind of habit I'd like all the maintainers to develop. silly, marek
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