Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news
From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Funny rm Business?
Message-ID: <!03Gk?v2@cs.psu.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 91 03:38:17 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.001738.18182@macc.wisc.edu>
Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet)
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Lines: 18
In-Reply-To: anderson@macc.wisc.edu's message of 21 Jan 91 00:17:38 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: client6.cs.psu.edu


In article <1991Jan21.001738.18182@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:


   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?

rm -i works for me.  If you use tcsh, and type 'rm *', it will ask you
to confirm the deletions.  Maybe your rm is aliased to rm -f.  Type
alias rm to find out.

-Mike