In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> 
> Why not do both? Unix untilities do it sometimes this way: Use an
> interactive check for "scrubenv" but allow "scrubenv -force" not to
> ask. As many of the U-Boot users know Unix, this would follow from
> the "principle of least surprise"...

That would be exactly the other way round, i. e. provide an optional
"-i" argument like "rm *" is doing in Unix.

The default shall be not to ask any questions.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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