Frankie,
> 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,,
Naturally. Accidents are bound to happen to everyone. Maybe I
like living with a
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
try rm -f
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?
>
>
On Thursday 22 February 2001 01:46 pm, DRX wrote:
> When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect annoyingfile
> to disappear -- not to be asked
> How do I change the function of rm to make it work the way I
> would like?
in your /home//.bashrcyou'll see some lines like the
On Thursday 22 February 2001 11:46, 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 annoying
u have too.
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Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 10:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Real rm?
Hey,
> When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect
> annoyingfile
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 chang
