In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > Oops??? "rm" never asks unless you ask it to ask.
> 
> Not true.  It will ask if you don't have write permission to the file, 
> even if you are able to delete because you have write permission to the 
> directory.

Does it? Indeed. Must be a GNUism. I bet this was't there in Unix v6
when I learned it ;-)


You are right, but this  is  still  a  special  case  where  another,
explicit protection is being overwritten.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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