doc: improve 'rm -f' description
authorBernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:29:44 +0000 (13:29 +0100)
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:54:49 +0000 (14:54 +0100)
commitbf5ba002c20578a5bdc9599b250cdad5468fa9ab
tree1610185baf4170887a6ff1b7b63665dad0ae8329
parent4bb5dbcfef55c4f66755dd3c48b906e4e9030b96
doc: improve 'rm -f' description

* doc/coreutils.texi (rm invocation): Mention that the -f option also
silences the message for missing operands, which is useful in scripts
e.g., for "rm -f $file_list" when $file_list is empty.
* src/rm.c (usage):  Likewise.
Reported by Jérémy Magrin in http://bugs.gnu.org/10819
THANKS.in
doc/coreutils.texi
src/rm.c