More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other)

[chris at mimsy.UUCP]

[name deleted somewhere writes]
>>Oddly enough, "-f" is redundant, the same effect can be obtained by doing
>>	rm </dev/null -options.. files...

In article <5740022 at hpfcdc.HP.COM> rml at hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk) answers
>Not quite.  -f supresses error messages, such as
>
>	rm: <name> non-existent

	% rm nosuch
	rm: nosuch nonexistent
	% rm nosuch </dev/null
	%

In 4.2/4.3BSD, at least, there is a line like

	if (!isatty(0)) fflag = 1;

in the source to /bin/rm.
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