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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: patch for bin/rm/rm.c Message-ID: <f0Yl6J8@quack.kfu.com> Date: 23 Mar 93 22:40:43 GMT References: <1oligtINN6mj@ftp.UU.NET> Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. Lines: 23 In article <1oligtINN6mj@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >"rm -f" doesn't work properly; it actually complains. (How silly!) >Here is a patch file that should fix it. Personally, I've never experienced a problem with 'rm -f'. OTOH, I noticed a problem with 'rmdir directory/' (note the trailing separator). It told me that 'directory/ is a directory'. If I omit the trailing backslash it works fine, of course. I'm not sure if this is the way it's supposed to work. Note that I'm using bash, and filename completion on a directory name appends the backslash, and it's slightly inconvenient to have to redo the command without the trailing backslash. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ in real life: david fox email: dfox@quack.kfu.com 5479 Castle Manor Drive, San Jose, CA 95129 "Thanks for letting me change some USA magnetic patterns on your HD" -me 408-253-7992 "You've just won an absolutely FREE trip to the Isles of Langerhans" -me ------------------------------------------------------------------------