rm -rf and recursive nothing

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Jul 21 09:33:54 PDT 2006


:...
:> Personally I have an alias rd=rmdir (and md=mkdir), which
:> is a left-over from my old DOS days.  :-)
:> 
:> By the way, shouldn't -f override any previous -i or -I
:> option?  At least that's what I would expect.  You don't
:> type -f without a reason.
:
:This has been discussed (to death) before. I'd be all in for that, but 
:other people weren't.
:
:Sascha

    Yah.  I've been going against popular opinion on this matter and I'm
    going to continue going against it.  -I is not overriden by -f.  -I
    does apply only to interactive shells, though, so it will not blow up
    scripts.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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