[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7775: closed (rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file)

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> rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file
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> Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:12:26 -0500
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> rm normally produces an error when you delete a nonexistent file. However, under -f, you get no error message. I would argue this is a bug.
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> -- Jeremy Hetzler
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> 520 $ /bin/rm nonexistent
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> /bin/rm: cannot remove `nonexistent': No such file or directory
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> 521 $ /bin/rm -f nonexistent
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> 522 $ rm --version
> rm (GNU coreutils) 8.5
> Packaged by Cygwin (8.5-2)
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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> Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman,
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> Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> > rm normally produces an error when you delete a nonexistent file. However,
> > under -f, you get no error message. I would argue this is a bug.
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> Thank you for the bug report.  But this is not a bug.  That is the
> correct and desired behavior.  That is the way it is supposed to work.
> This is documented in the manual.
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>   $ info coreutils 'rm invocation'
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>   `-f'
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>        Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user.  Ignore any
>        previous `--interactive' (`-i') option.
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> This is core behavior and is also standardized across all Unix
> systems.  Here is a pointer to the online standards documentation.
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>   http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html
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> Bob
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