http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527658 Summary: enable rm compilation that asks that prompts before deleting Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ousia@wanadoo.es QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090714 SUSE/3.5.1-3.1 Firefox/3.5.1 I have migrated from Mandriva and they had a nice feature there. I'm only a user and probably my description is not accurate. But the issue I describe here is real. Invoking "rm *" was the same as "rm -i *". I guess this may well be a compilation option that prevents accidental deletion of files. I have just deleted many files by mistake and probably I'm not the only one that accidentally erases files. Since the deletion is not reversible in ext3 (or at least no easily reversible), I think that deletion without prompting should be avoided unless the -f option is invoked. Would you be so kind to provide versions of the coreutils programs (as far as I can remember, rm and mv, but there may be other ones as well) that prompt the user before deleting (or overwriting) data unless the never prompt option is explicitly invoked? (I'm describing the importance of this issue as critical, since the lack of this feature causes users (end-users) accidental data loss.) Thanks for your help, Pablo Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.