[6573] in RedHat Linux List
Re: The rm command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Thu Nov 28 10:25:59 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:23:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Jason Swenson wrote:
> How do I turn this off so I don't get prompted anymore. I just want to rm
> the file or directory without answering y to the prompt.
In your .bashrc file you will see that
rm
is aliased to
rm -i
Same (in mine) for cp and mv.
These are safety features. If you want to disable them just comment
out the appropriate lines of this file (or remove them) and re-initialize
the file.
-sen
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