Repeat of a question posted to net.unix (resp: shell processing)

David P. Zimmerman dpz at topaz.RUTGERS.EDU
Sat Sep 20 12:03:36 AEST 1986


> Assume that file "nxf" does not exist.
> Assume that the following lines are in shell script 'cmd':
>  
>   #!/bin/csh
>   rm nxf         >& cmd_out
>   echo $status   >  cmd_stat

Same problem here on a 4.2 system.  But replace "rm nxf" with "ping
foo" or "test" and everything works OK.  Bug in rm?

				David
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