On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> wrote: > On 2017-03-14, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> >> wrote: >>> rm does not ask before deleting. However some Linux distributions >>> take it upon themselves to put "alias rm='rm -i'" in /etc/profile. >> >> I have no such alias, but it still prompts. > > I'm think you must be mistaken. What do you see if you type > 'alias rm' and 'which rm'? Are you perhaps trying to delete > files to which you do not have write permission?
This conversation was specifically about files for which one does not have write permission. So yes. (It's pretty common; .git/objects is mostly or entirely made up of such files.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list