Re: rm -f

[Eric Blake]

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According to Patrick Welche on 12/14/2007 9:19 AM:
> There already is a safety check in libtool at
> 
>       # Don't error if the file doesn't exist and rm -f was used.
> 
> but then there are all the cases where $RM is used. Invent a shell
> function which does rm -f if its argument isn't empty?

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.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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