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Re: rm - bug or user error?


From: Jon Stanley
Subject: Re: rm - bug or user error?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:37 -0500

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Michael Webb <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm running /bin/csh.  Don't know how to figure out the coreutil version,
> however the rm man-page says 5.2.1.

Yeah, like Eric said, I think that this is a csh problem rather than a
coreutils problem. I would even think that csh is behaving wrongly
here - rather than refusing to run rm because the glob didn't match,
it should pass the f* straight through to rm to deal with as it
pleases, unless you explicitly told the shell to fail (as Eric did in
his example). I don't have any standards to back that up though, Eric
is the POSIX-citing guy around here :)

Any standards for that Eric?




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