anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) (01/21/91)
I must be losing my mind (no jokes, please).
On all my previous Unices, aliasing rm to rm -i was a recipe
for saving your neck as well as a convenience in cleaning up
a muddled directory. In the cases where you were *sure* of
yourself, you could always go rm -f *, because -f would
override -i when both appear. Not so with 2.0, I guess. Is
there a trick?
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In article <1991Jan21.001738.18182@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
I must be losing my mind (no jokes, please).
On all my previous Unices, aliasing rm to rm -i was a recipe
for saving your neck as well as a convenience in cleaning up
a muddled directory. In the cases where you were *sure* of
yourself, you could always go rm -f *, because -f would
override -i when both appear. Not so with 2.0, I guess. Is
there a trick?
rm -i works for me. If you use tcsh, and type 'rm *', it will ask you
to confirm the deletions. Maybe your rm is aliased to rm -f. Type
alias rm to find out.
-Mikegeoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) (01/23/91)
>In article <1991Jan21.001738.18182@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: > > In the cases where you were *sure* of > yourself, you could always go rm -f *, because -f would > override -i when both appear. Not so with 2.0, I guess. Is > there a trick? When I alias rm with "rm -i", I use "/bin/rm -f" to override the alias. Geoffrey S. Knauth geoff@bos.camex.com Camex, Inc., 75 Kneeland St. geoff%bos.camex@uunet.uu.net Boston, MA 02111, (617) 426-3577 x451 --standard disclaimers--