That's Mandrake's way of keeping new users from making grave errors.
I've left it in place since I have made the mistake and the alias rm="rm
-i" saved my butt.
You can either remove it from /etc/bashrc or if you want to override it
on a per-use basis, type "\rm annoyingfile" (backslash overrides
aliases).
DRX wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> DRX
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