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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: rm flags (was Re: Public Domain version of: yes(1))
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Date: 13 Apr 88 01:52:50 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Indiana University
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Summary: simplicity...

In article <2606@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>     rm < yes
>
>     yes | rm
>
>     rm < /dev/yes

Under the Ultrix here, "rm -f" overrides my aliased "rm -i" quite handily.
This also works as expected on the MSDOS port of rm that I use at home
(I had to compile in the "-i" default).

I seem to recall difficulty under BSD 4.x; is that why no one else suggested
this?