Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!husc6!purdue!umd5!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other) Message-ID: <11811@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 19:11:17 GMT References: <1827@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <5740022@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 22 [name deleted somewhere writes] >>Oddly enough, "-f" is redundant, the same effect can be obtained by doing >> rm rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) answers >Not quite. -f supresses error messages, such as > > rm:non-existent % rm nosuch rm: nosuch nonexistent % rm nosuch