rm -rf and recursive nothing

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Thu Jul 20 20:44:51 PDT 2006


On Thu, July 20, 2006 10:45 pm, Peter Avalos wrote:

>> However, I still got the "recursively remove <dirname>" warning that
>> comes
>> from trying to delete more than 3 files.  It lists a total of 3, but
>> only
>> names 2.  This was on a 1.4.4 system
>>
>>
>
> Sounds like you have an alias for rm that does rm -I.

Yeah, it's default.  The heat must be addling my brain.  Mentally, I
didn't expect -I to do anything when removing a single directory.






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