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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:51:20 +0200
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: rm nonexisting*; alias with parameters?
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On 8/10/05, Deliverable Mail <deliverable@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Peter!  (I hear you, Ligesh...  will do later :)  Worked as
> described.  Making rm -f does not change zsh behavior, of course, as
> globbing happens before -f can kick in -- so it's a bit confusing that
> -f doesn't work.  Thankfully zsh says zsh: before its globbing error.
> It's a tricky fault for those who expect rm -f to shut up and do it...
>=20
> Alexy

You can also add (N) directly after the pattern without the options
set and they will silently expand to nothing. ie rm *.txt *.bak(N)
will fail if there are no *.txt files but no *.bak files is okay.