* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:33 -0400) > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) > >> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > >> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and > >> that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off. > > > >As far as I know "-f" is already the default... > > If you're saying that "-f" is always active when you type "rm" then, no > that is not true.
I'm saying that "ignore nonexistent files, never prompt" is the default behaviour if you're running plain unaliased /usr/bin/rm.exe. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
