Gerry Lawrence writes: > It gets worse. In newer versions, rm does this behavior by default, > without being aliased to rm -i. > > In this case, you'll need to unset rmstar to get rm to not annoy you.
rmstar appears to be a shell feature, not part of the rm command. In particular, tcsh appears to be the guilty party: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man1/tcsh.1.html > As soon as they find out that people are unseting rmstar, There are OSes which have this set by default? Actually my attempt at seeing it in action failed: $ mkdir new $ cd new $ tcsh % touch 1 2 3 4 5 % ls 1 2 3 4 5 % setenv rmstar % rm * % ls % exit $ -- which is itself hateful. What did I miss? Smylers
