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From: geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth)
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Subject: Re: Funny rm Business?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 20:23:59 GMT
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>In article <1991Jan21.001738.18182@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>                         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?

When I alias rm with "rm -i", I use "/bin/rm -f" to override the alias.

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