Rasmus, On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:20, Rasmus Plewe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:49:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 04:43, jdd wrote: > > > Reinhard Gimbel wrote: > > > > That's why I use the "alias" feature of bash to set the > > > > "-i"-option for most of the "dangerous" commands dealing with > > > > file on CLI level > > > > > > and so most of the time you type rm -f *... > > > > Check it out. The "-i" option trumps "-f", regardless of their > > order. > > $ touch foo > $ rm -if foo > $ touch foo > $ rm -fi foo > rm: remove regular empty file `foo'? y > $
How very lame. What I said is true of "cp" but not of "rm!" (The cp behavior always bugs me 'cause adding the "-f" doesn't help and I have to enter the full path name to the binary if I want to overwrite a file with the cp command.) > Rasmus Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
