On 30 March 2011 09:27, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Christopher Faylor (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:33 -0400) >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> >As far as I know "-f" is already the default... >> >> If you're saying that "-f" is always active when you type "rm" then, no >> that is not true. > > I'm saying that "ignore nonexistent files, never prompt" is the default > behaviour if you're running plain unaliased /usr/bin/rm.exe.
It isn't. $ rm foo; echo $? rm: cannot remove `foo': No such file or directory 1 $ rm -f foo; echo $? 0 Andy -- 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
