Rasmus, On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:20, Rasmus Plewe wrote:
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:49:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:43, jdd wrote:
Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
That's why I use the "alias" feature of bash to set the "-i"-option for most of the "dangerous" commands dealing with file on CLI level
and so most of the time you type rm -f *...
Check it out. The "-i" option trumps "-f", regardless of their order.
$ touch foo $ rm -if foo $ touch foo $ rm -fi foo rm: remove regular empty file `foo'? y $
How very lame. What I said is true of "cp" but not of "rm!" (The cp behavior always bugs me 'cause adding the "-f" doesn't help and I have to enter the full path name to the binary if I want to overwrite a file with the cp command.)
Rasmus
Randall Schulz