For my daily work I use the alias alias rm='rm --interactive'
On the one hand this fine when I want to keep track of what I am doing when typing something like `rm foo*' in order to remove `foo.bar' and `foo.baz'. Here I am quite glad that I am told which files are matched and removed when typing `rm foo*'. On the other hand, the confirmation is annoying if I am typing `rm foo' and removing the file foo is all I want to do. In the latter example, the confirmation doesn't tell me anything I did not know anyway. Wouldn't it be neat if there was something like an option --interactive-multiple that would turn rm into an interactive command only when it is operating on more than one file so that there is a larger probability that one of the files is erroneously in the list of files I am removing. Is this useful? Or is all this too excotic to justify such an option? Roland _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
