On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > Additionally, what if you want to delete a lot of stuff and you're > postive you want to delete it? You now have to answer y|n to every > single file. That's a pain.
Tsk, tsk, Paul: I expect you to know all three ways (that I can think of, at least) to override that: \rm * and rm -f * and yes | rm * Of course, these should be used with caution. As for aliases, I both agree with many of your (plural "you") sentiments, and disagree: while I have almost none, I do find that they are hugely helpful for misc. things that one uses all the time -- and, if you're using the *same* command all the time, what good is typing it really going to do you in terms of learning it? It's only when you do things differently that you learn; otherwise, it might as well be an alias. Lastly, alias files from more learned users are frequently handy ways of showing newbies how things are done. $.02, -Ken And how do you over-ride that alias > for just that one session? It's easy enough, but chances are that if > you live in the world of aliases, you probably don't know, and the > man page for that particular command won't tell you, since it's a > shell built in. This in turn leads to frustration, the single reason > most find Unix too complex to deal with in the first place. > > Btw, preface the command with a '\' to over-ride for a single > invocation of the aliased command: > > \rm -rf / > > :) > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
