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- Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!ray
- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: 2nd time: How to remove files?
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:09:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.170901.25020@Celestial.COM>
- References: <Nov.11.13.41.20.1992.909@skynyrd.rutgers.edu>
- Keywords: remove, unix, corefiles
- Lines: 23
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- In <Nov.11.13.41.20.1992.909@skynyrd.rutgers.edu> puchalek@skynyrd.rutgers.edu (michael) writes:
-
-
- > I posted this article in comp.unix.questions with a narrow
- >distribution, so I am reposting with a wider range. If you see it
- >twice, sorry.
-
- >I keep getting files added to my working directory such as 'xerrors'
- >and '.nfs***'. If I put a line in my .login that says 'rm xerrors', a
- >'xerrors:no such file' message appears every time I log in. If I leave
- >the 'rm xerrors' line out of my .login, the 'xerrors' file starts to
- >show up in my root directory.
-
- Looks like the 'xerrors:no such file' message is generated whenever
- there is NO "xerrors" file to remove and is silent when it actually
- removes the file. Use:
- rm -f xerrors
- and rm will remove the file if it exists, and keep quite if it does
- not.
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