Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
>> > +die_abort () {
>> > + rm -rf "$DOTEST" 2> /dev/null
>> > + die "$1"
>> > +}
>>
>> Why "2>/dev/null" here?
>
> Just to be sure. If it does not exist, it's no error. No sense alarming
> the user.
Yeah, but isn't that exactly why you have "-f" there? On the
other hand, if $DOTEST exists but for some reason couldn't be
removed, we probably would want to know about it.
$ rm -fr no-such
$ mkdir no-such
$ echo >no-such/file
$ rm -fr no-such
$ mkdir no-such
$ echo >no-such/file
$ chmod a-w no-such
$ rm -fr no-such
rm: cannot remove `no-such/file': Permission denied
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