Re: rm - bug or user error?

[Bob Proulx]

Jon Stanley wrote:
> 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 :)

The 'csh' is not covered by any standards.  There is only the csh
implementation for reference.  It does what it does.

Bob