On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > The second option that I recommend is to deprecate this option > > entirely and remove it from the code base. The longer it remains the > > harder it will be to change to better behavior later. It is not > > really useful as it stands today. (I am happy to see challenges to > > that last statement.) > > Hi Bob, > > I'm leaning toward deprecating (undocument and emit a warning) > --reply=ANYTHING. > > Does anyone find the --reply=no option to be useful? > The other two are equivalent to -i and -f.
Some Linux distributions have alias rm="rm -i" for root, and the way to avoid the prompt then is --reply=yes. It's useful to have an option that undoes the effect of '-i', IMHO. Tim. */
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