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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst
index 3e669c2..b2e4eea 100644
--- a/Help/command/file.rst
+++ b/Help/command/file.rst
@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific
Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content
is changed.
+Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the
+generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the
+``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all
+of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files.
+
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::
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
index 063aea1..37e50d2 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
@@ -263,8 +263,10 @@ Available commands are:
052f86c15bbde68af55c7f7b340ab639 file2.txt
``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