On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Ronald wrote: > Why don't I get an error message here? > > $ ls -l test.zip > -rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct 5 12:49 test.zip > $ rm test.zip > $ echo $? > 0 > $ ls -l test.zip > -rwx------+ 1 Administrators ???????? 1153454 Oct 5 12:49 test.zip > > Obviously the file wasn't removed, but rm does not give any error message. > Any idea why?
Obligatory dumb question: you don't happen to have 'rm' aliased to 'rm -f', do you? What filesystem? -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
