> Hi. I'm new to Linux, having just installed Red Hat 5.0 on my system last
> weekend, but I'm not new to Unix. I was surprised to find that many
> commands ask for confirmations, particularly rm. I took a look at the man,
> but couldn't find a flag to turn confirmations off. Anyone have a
> suggestion? It's really annoying, especially when deleting large
> directories with many nested subdirectories.
AFAIK, the default is to *not* to confirm deletes. Perhaps the system has set
you up with an alias setting rm to be "rm -i". I know root is this way. For
a user, you can just undo that alias (check the .bashrc or .bash_profile
files), but I wouldn't recommend doing that for root. When you've been doing
things for a while, you'll see that additional safeguards for root are quite
useful.
Now, for those occasions when you know (even as root) that you *don't* want
the confirmation, use the "-f" (force) flag.
-Michael
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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