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How to make sure that a file is deleted with one command? #866

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plavjanik opened this issue Nov 30, 2020 · 5 comments · Fixed by #2254
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How to make sure that a file is deleted with one command? #866

plavjanik opened this issue Nov 30, 2020 · 5 comments · Fixed by #2254
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community-upvoted enhancement New feature or request priority-medium Not functioning - next quarter if capacity permits
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I am trying to delete a file that may not exist.

In Linux, I would use rm -f /tmp/may-not-exist and that would either delete it if it is there or not delete without any error message and error code if it is already deleted.

The man page of rm says:

     -f          Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirmation, regardless of the file's permissions.  If the file does not exist, do not display a
                 diagnostic message or modify the exit status to reflect an error.

This is a useful option because I do not need to check if the file is deleted before I am deleting and it leads to simple and more stable automation (because the file can be deleted outside of my script after the check).

The Zowe CLI has -f option that has a different meaning. If the file does not exist, Zowe CLI fails with an error.

--for-sure | -f (boolean)

Specify this option to confirm that you want to delete the file or directory permanently.

It would be useful to have a similar option -f as Linux rm has so it returns 0 when the file does not exist.

The current behavior is:
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@gejohnston gejohnston added enhancement New feature or request priority-low Legit issue but cosmetic or nice-to-have labels Oct 17, 2022
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@zFernand0 zFernand0 added priority-medium Not functioning - next quarter if capacity permits and removed priority-low Legit issue but cosmetic or nice-to-have labels Mar 8, 2023
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We could add an ignore/suppress errors option for delete operations.

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JTonda commented Apr 22, 2024

Implement as new flag and only detect that files not there as a success.

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Suggesting adding a --quiet flag, that attempts the delete and checks that the file does not exist. No errors would be thrown as long as the file is not in place after the attempted delete operation.

This would be for delete ops for DS, USS, zFS, and maybe VSAM.

@ATorrise ATorrise self-assigned this Aug 26, 2024
@ATorrise ATorrise linked a pull request Sep 5, 2024 that will close this issue
Add --ignore-not-found flag logic to zosfilesBase.handler and update command definitions and en.ts for delete operations #2254
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@adam-wolfe adam-wolfe added this to the V3.1.0 milestone Oct 9, 2024
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community-upvoted enhancement New feature or request priority-medium Not functioning - next quarter if capacity permits
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