On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 17:29 -0800, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2008-12-31 at 01:16 +0000, Martin Ebourne wrote: > > Yes, that's right, in zsh it's a negative option, and rmstartwait goes > > one even better than that: > > > > RM_STAR_SILENT (-H) <K> <S> > > Do not query the user before executing `rm *' or `rm path/*'. > > For reference for the non-zsh folks: that's a command-line option -H to > activate this option (turn off the prompt/warning) and a note that in > ksh and sh emulation modes this is automatically on (thus silent).
That paragraph alone is proof that negative options in software should be legislated against. Cheers, Martin
