On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:16:19AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > [ Presuming you meant `mv -i'. ] > Just use mv's -f option -- it's equivalent to --reply=yes. > > If you really did mean `rm -i', then I admit that rm's > -f option isn't precisely the same as `turn off -i', but > it's pretty close. People (especially superuser) who don't like > the vendor-supplied aliases are always free to use `unalias' > or to define a new alias that invokes rm with no options.
No, you're right, I got confused -- it was cp I was thinking of, where -f has no effect on prompting. Tim. */
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