On 2008-12-31 at 01:16 +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > Yes, that's right, in zsh it's a negative option, and rmstartwait goes > one even better than that: > > RM_STAR_SILENT (-H) <K> <S> > Do not query the user before executing `rm *' or `rm path/*'.
For reference for the non-zsh folks: that's a command-line option -H to activate this option (turn off the prompt/warning) and a note that in ksh and sh emulation modes this is automatically on (thus silent). In zsh, it's not for the built-in rm, it's a pre-check before running the normal rm. (The "built-in" is actually dynamically loaded from zsh/files which is a bunch of emergency commands, predating busybox, rather than POSIX-compatible implementations; was rather useful recently when I managed to hose a system so that exec() couldn't work but I could still load dynamic modules). The prompting isn't new; I think it's been there for at least a decade. Hrm, was present in rev 1.1 in the current CVS, so was there in 1999. > RM_STAR_WAIT > If querying the user before executing `rm *' or `rm path/*', first > wait ten seconds and ignore anything typed in that time. This > avoids the problem of reflexively answering `yes' to the query > when one didn't really mean it. The wait and query can always be > avoided by expanding the `*' in ZLE (with tab). The lack of adornments to the name there indicates that this behaviour is *not* turned on by default -- the user has to explicitly request this behaviour. Nobody on zsh-devel is ever likely to force this on for everyone, that would be ... well, too hateful. -Phil
