More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other)

Bob Lenk rml at hpfcdc.HP.COM
Tue Jun 7 10:37:47 AEST 1988


>	% 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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