suppress shell script error messages

Question

In my shell script I got these lines:

rm tempfl.txt
rm tempfl2.txt

If these do not exist I get the error messages:

rm: temp         


        

Answer 1

Try this command:

rm -f tempfl.txt

the -f option acts like this:

-f, --force  ignore nonexistent files, never prompt

The command also doesn't report a non-zero error code in case the file doesn't exist.