On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:02:17 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote: > > > I think the only option here is to give > > rm * > > and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file. > > please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is > over 30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came > across this problem. > AFAIK, some systems have rm aliased to rm -i by default. Red Hat has it done for root. I think Mandrake has it for all users. (It's that way on sourceforge and sourceforge uses Mandrake, hence the not-so-solid inference). -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT ernet DOT in We, the rest of humanity, wish GNU luck and Godspeed _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
