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From: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart)
Subject: Re: Problems with rm -f
Message-ID: <1991May15.150937.24649@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Syracuse Univ/Eastman Kodak Co.
References: <1991May14.190816.17169@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991May14.214454.32197@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 15 May 91 15:09:37 GMT

Many thanx to all the answers; indeed, every one of them said the same
and was correct. What I overlooked was csh's little habits of throwing
up information every once and awhile, and that was the problem.

Briefly: csh announces when the glob cannot expand to anything, and
indeed it is not "rm" that is the problem, it is the csh. The solution
came from wreenm@math.mscs.mu.edu (Michael Wreen) and thanx to him, in
his csh environment command:

	set nonomatch

That seems to solve all of my problems; again thanx to all who
answered directly and posted. All good information, and as far as I
see, all the right answers :)

--Cheers! Ace



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