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rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file

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From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: rm -f emits no error message when deleting nonexistent file
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 10:12:26 -0500

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rm normally produces an error when you delete a nonexistent file. However,
under -f, you get no error message. I would argue this is a bug.

-- Jeremy Hetzler

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520 $ /bin/rm nonexistent
/bin/rm: cannot remove `nonexistent': No such file or directory

521 $ /bin/rm -f nonexistent

522 $ rm --version
rm (GNU coreutils) 8.5
Packaged by Cygwin (8.5-2)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard M. Stallman,
and Jim Meyering.

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