[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Youngman) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:45:05PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> This puts the invocation of rm without arguments in the >> implementation's realm, where currently, coreutils is not consistent >> on what it returns: >> >> $ rm >> rm: missing operand >> Try `rm --help' for more information. >> $ echo $? # used improperly >> 1 >> $ rm -f >> $ echo $? # all (zero) calls to unlink succeeded >> 0 > > Personally I think this is exactly the right way to do it (both > cases).
Same here. FYI, Solaris' /bin/rm is similar (though it's 2 and 0). On NetBSD 1.6 /bin/rm exits with status 1 in both cases. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
