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

Adding to the answers above: It is probably a better idea to keep error messages (like permission denied or some such). Just test existence of the file before deleting it:

[ -f file.txt ] && rm file.txt

This assumes a Bourne like shell, e.g., bash. The above has the additional benefit that it won't try to delete a directory, something rm can't do.