suppress error for `rm -rf` on non-existent files

[dakom]

running rm -rf on a non-existent directory gives an error

would be nice if the default could be in that case to not have an error (rather than needing to do conditional checks before running, for use in cargo-make)

[sagiegurari]

you see the error on linux or windows? can you provide the error?

[dakom]

Windows

The system cannot find the file specified.
[cargo-make] ERROR - Error while executing command, exit code: 2

[dakom]

The toml (from cargo-make) is:

[tasks.clean-rust]
script_runner = "@shell"
script = ["rm -rf ./rust/pkg"]

Resulting command is

rmdir /S /Q .\rust\pkg

[sagiegurari]

you can add a condition to the task "file_exists" so this will only execute if the dir exists

[dakom]

is there a way to add a condition to each line in a task's script?

Right now I'm doing this, as a workaround... kinda ugly imho:

[tasks.clean-rust]
run_task = [{name = [
    "clean-rust1", 
    "clean-rust2",
    "clean-rust3",
]}]

[tasks.clean-rust1]
script_runner = "@shell"
script = ["rm -rf ./_static/wasm/core/pkg"]
condition = {files_exist = ["./_static/wasm/core/pkg"]}

[tasks.clean-rust2]
script_runner = "@shell"
script = ["rm -rf ./rust/target"]
condition = {files_exist = ["./rust/target"]}

[tasks.clean-rust3]
script_runner = "@shell"
script = ["rm -rf ./rust/pkg"]
condition = {files_exist = ["./rust/pkg"]}

[sagiegurari]

nope. shell2batch is limited, but if there is a flag to rmdir that can silence this error i can add it. need to check

[sagiegurari]

windows doesn't provide such option, so either add the condition or add ignore_errors=true

[dakom]

ok cool. can ignore_errors=true be set for a given task only?

[dakom]

nm I see that it can. Thanks!

[sagiegurari]

@dakom you can now put @duckscript instead of shell and it should work cross platform without errors. no need for conditions or to ignore errors