On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:34:11AM -0600, David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| >If I leave off the -f flag GNU rm seems to ask about _every_ bloody
| >file. This makes it so close to useless that one must use -f all the
| >time. Which is VERY VERY BAD, because it makes habitual the "don't do
| >any sanity checks at all" mode. Dangerous in the extreme.
|
| On Red Hat, by default:
| # alias rm
| alias rm='rm -i'
|
| It's set in .bashrc. Just get rid of the alias, and you won't get
| "interactive".
|
| 'Zat help?
Doh! Indeed it does. For the record, I normally don't use bash (I use
another Bourne shell), so I expect to be free of RedHat's excess zeal
(coloured ls - bleah!) Just checked here (a linux box) and my normal
environment doesn't display this behaviour; but root on said box does.
So yes, you're quite right - it's not GNU's rm at all, it's RedHat.
Thanks!
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