David Gaudine wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does > > what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask > > you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access > > to). > > > > I hope I don't need to say how extremely dangerous these commands are, > > and how careful you should be when using them. > > For sure. In fact, I'd be careful about counting on rm -r to prompt you. > -f or --force means no prompting, -i or --interactive means prompting, > and I think the default is no prompting unless the "noclobber" > environment variable is set. This may depend on the shell though. > I just tried it with tcsh and "noclobber" didn't help. > [checks the man page] [checks the info page] Aw heck, use -i.
For my less-brains-than-a-brick users, I do: cat > -i ^D in each dir that they normally work in. This way, when they 'accidentally' do 'rm -r' in the dir, it also evals the -i and prompts them for each file.. crude, but it works.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Monday is a hard way to spend one-seventh of your life. ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
