Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2006 9:14 AM:
No. Those who want `short' can use -I.
Although --ask-once does sound nice, I want to keep things minimal,
in case we end up providing similar functionality for other commands,
where adding a long-named
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According to Jim Meyering on 2/20/2006 6:06 AM:
ChangeLog:
2006-02-18 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* TODO (rm): Implement rm -I.
* NEWS: Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.
Thanks. Applied.
I missed one spot of
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I missed one spot of documentation, and introduced a typo. Please apply
this followon patch:
ChangeLog:
2006-02-20 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* man/rm.x: Update documentation to match previous patch.
doc/ChangeLog:
2006-02-20 Eric Blake
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According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2006 9:14 AM:
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you propose that --interactive alone be equivalant to
--interactive=always or -i, and that the long option for -I is
--interactive=once. Is it worth having a
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ChangeLog:
2005-12-03 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* TODO: Remove entry for implementing rm -I.
* NEWS: Document rm -I, along with change to rm --interactive.
...
+Specifying @option{--interactive} and no @var{when} is equivalent to
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Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you propose that --interactive alone be equivalant to
--interactive=always or -i, and that the long option for -I is
--interactive=once. Is it worth having a shorter spelling for the long
option for -I?
No. Those who want `short' can use -I.
Although
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According to Paul Eggert on 12/2/2005 2:00 PM:
However, we could have an option along those lines. Users who prefer
that behavior then could alias rm to rm-with-the-option.
FreeBSD has an -I option, with the following meaning:
-I
Ken Nellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I write to recommend a change to the rm command: When deleting the
files specified on the command line, when encountering one that
doesn't exist, after diagnosing the error, rm should immediately
terminate instead of the current procedure of continuing to
