More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other)
Bob Lenk
rml at hpfcdc.HP.COM
Tue Jun 7 10:37:47 AEST 1988
> % 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;
Just another BSD/SysV difference, which explains the differing opinions
(apparently the hyphen in "non-existent" is another):
% rm nosuch
rm: nosuch non-existent
% rm nosuch < /dev/null
rm: nosuch non-existent
% rm -f nosuch
%
Bob Lenk
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rml%hpfcla at hplabs.hp.com
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