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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-04-10 14:00:55 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2017-04-10 14:00:58 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'clarifyRemoveDocs'
812274ff Help: Clarify what the -f option does for the remove command Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !680
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``remove [-f] <file>...``
- Remove the file(s), use ``-f`` to force it. If a file does
- not exist it will be silently ignored.
+ Remove the file(s). If any of the listed files already do not
+ exist, the command returns a non-zero exit code, but no message
+ is logged. The ``-f`` option changes the behavior to return a
+ zero exit code (i.e. success) in such situations instead.
``remove_directory <dir>``
Remove a directory and its contents. If a directory does