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From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Funny rm Business?
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Date: 21 Jan 91 00:17:38 GMT
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I must be losing my mind (no jokes, please).

On all my previous Unices, aliasing rm to rm -i was a recipe
for saving your neck as well as a convenience in cleaning up
a muddled directory.  In the cases where you were *sure* of
yourself, you could always go rm -f *, because -f would
override -i when both appear.  Not so with 2.0, I guess.  Is
there a trick?

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