Re: rmstar option nit in 2.6-beta11

[schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Barton E. Schaefer)]

On Nov 10,  6:45pm, Richard Coleman wrote:
} Subject: Re: rmstar option nit in 2.6-beta11
}
} Interesting.  Looking at the code, I see that if you do
} 
}    $ rm *
} 
} and then type `n' when it queries you, it will abort the command with
} a return value of 1.  If you type
} 
}    $ rm file1 *
} 
} and then type `n' when it queries you, it will delete `*' from the argument
} list and continue.  Therefore file1 gets deleted and it returns with a
} return value of 0.
} 
} Not very consistent.

Look at the case of

    $ rm foo/file1 bar/*

before you pass judgement.

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