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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
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[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