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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other)
Message-ID: <5740023@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 88 00:37:47 GMT
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>	% 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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