> Oddly enough, "-f" is redundant, the same effect can be obtained by doing
> rm </dev/null -options.. files...
Not quite. -f supresses error messages, such as
rm: <name> non-existent
Of course you can do
> rm -options.. files... < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Bob Lenk
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