On 12/25/2003 02:36 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote:
On my Mandrake 9.2 box, every time I try to use rm on multiple files, I get asked if I really want to remove the file(s).
The default behaviour of rm is, not to ask.
Can I disable this question in any manner?
Have a look at $HOME/.bashrc. There probably is an alias in it stating alias rm='rm -i' Replace that by alias rm='rm' and you are fine.
Personally I wouldn't do that. The time consumed by typing "rm -f" instead of "rm" is infinitessimal compared to the time consumed by typing something like "rm ./*" then realising you're in the wrong directory! (I once got my terminal sessions mixed up and thought I was in /mnt/floppy when I was actually telnetting to my web server - bye bye website!)
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