[Toolserver-l] Job scheduling and mail receiving

[River Tarnell]

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In article <4D529B28.7030703 at vyznev.net>,
Ilmari Karonen  <nospam at vyznev.net> wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 03:22 AM, River Tarnell wrote:
> > Or, if you only wanted to receive output on failure:
> >
> > 	#! /bin/ksh
> > 	f=$(mktemp)
> > 	trap "rm -f $f" 0
> > 	/path/to/mytool>$f 2>&1 ||<$f mailx -s "Tool output" $LOGNAME
 
> Just out of curiosity... is there a particular reason for the -f switch 
> to rm here, or are you just trying to be extra sure the tempfile gets 
> deleted?

Because:

* Without -f, rm behaves differently depending on whether the script is 
  run from an interactive terminal or not, so I always use -f to get 
  consistent behaviour; and

* It doesn't matter if the file was already deleted, so I don't want an 
  error message if rm fails.

	- river.
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