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Re: rm -f


From: Patrick Welche
Subject: Re: rm -f
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:58:51 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-03-22)

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:27:48PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> The general idiom for this is 'rm -f dummy $files', so that even if $files
> is empty, you are still passing an argument to rm, and the -f avoids
> failure on the dummy argument.

Elegant!

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