there seems to be a weird bug with the "rm" command, at least with "rm (coreutils) 4.5.3".
This is an quite old version of, the latest stable is 5.0. Just try the following commands, rm -i a b* rm -f a b* in a test directory containing a file named "a" and no file with a name starting with "b". I don't know what the bug is supposed to be. -f ignores non-existant files, so it doesn't print anything if some file doesn't exist. $ touch a $ rm -i a b* rm: remove empty file `a'? y rm: cannot lstat `b*': No such file or directory $ touch a $ rm -f a b* $ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils