yeah and if you accidenly slip when someone calls you, and your are su'd to
root, and you put a little asterix in there,, things would get really
interesting...
I like having a last chance,,
just my opinion.. you can't be to safe,, thats why its unwise to be root
unless you have too.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Meph Istopheles
Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 10:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Real rm?
Hey,
> When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect
> annoyingfile to disappear -- not to be asked
> rm: remove 'annoyingfile'?
> What's the point of asking that? I wouldn't have given
> the command rm if I didn't want to remove annoyingfile, would
> I?
> How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way
> I would like?
This one bothered me too (read "drove me nuts") till I finally
looked in ~./.bashrc. It appears MandrakeSoft chose to make an
alias for rm to rm='rm -i' which is for interactive. I suppose
to gear toward the total 'puter newbie.
You can either remove the alias or, as I'd done, switch it to
rm='rm -f' which is for force, ie, no questions asked.
Meph
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"I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."
-Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
