Hi, Regarding to the manpage and comments in rm.c, the option -I of rm is meant to be the same as --interactive=once
It isn't, since when removing a write-protected file, rm prompts if --interactive=once is given, but it doesn't prompt, if -I is given. This behaviour of rm -I is surprising, since rm even prompts before removing a write-protected file, if no extra interactivity is asked for. It can be changed easily by changing line 268 of rm.c from x.interactive = RMI_NEVER; to x.interactive = RMI_SOMETIMES; (see attached diff)
--- src/rm.c 2008-12-10 00:31:33.000000000 +0100 +++ src/rm-new.c 2008-12-10 00:33:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ break; case 'I': - x.interactive = RMI_NEVER; + x.interactive = RMI_SOMETIMES; x.ignore_missing_files = false; prompt_once = true; break;
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