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bug#6402: [PATCH] rm: remove no-op -d option


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: bug#6402: [PATCH] rm: remove no-op -d option
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:01:26 +0200

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 03:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Jim, what do you think of this alternative patch, which avoids the
>>> issue of a new translation string by instead letting getopt parsing
>>> reject -d like any other unknown option?
>>
>> I like it.  Thank you.
>>
>> ...
>>> --- a/NEWS
>> ...
>>> +  rm -d now issues an error rather than being silently ignored.
>>
>> How about a slight change in wording to make clear
>> that the entire "rm" command was not being ignored.
>>
>>    rm's -d now evokes an error;  before, it was silently ignored.
>
> Pushed with that change.

Closing.





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