Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ rm -r /tmp/ji/ > rm: remove write-protected regular file `/tmp/ji/a'? ^C > $ rm -fr /tmp/jidanni.org/ > $ rm -fr /tmp/jidanni.org/ > $ rm -fr /tmp/jidanni.org/ > > well, did it remove it or not?* > > `-f' > `--force' > Ignore nonexistent files and never prompt the user. Ignore any > previous `--interactive' (`-i') option. > > > well, OK, but prompting the user and emitting error output are > different things.
Which part of "Ignore nonexistent files" did you not understand? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N�rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
