severity 16862 wishlist
close 16862
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Hello Marc,
Marc Perkel wrote:
> Minor feature request
> Suggest -q (for quiet) for rm command. No error code if file doesn't exist.
> rm -q file
> rather tham
> rm file 2> /dev/null
The 'rm' program already handles this feature using the -f option. It
is a standard idiom. Instead of -q you want -f.
rm -f file
This is much better than 'rm file 2> /dev/null' because errors are
properly reported to the caller.
The documentation says:
-f
--force
Ignore nonexistent files and missing operands, and never prompt
the user. Ignore any previous --interactive (-i) option.
Since this is a standard feature I am marking the ticket closed.
Please feel free to add further discussion into the bug log.
Bob
