rm -rf and recursive nothing

Jonas Trollvik jontro at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 05:43:56 PDT 2006


If someone is bothered with it they can just remove the alias. The -l
flag is optional and people dont have to use it.
-Jonas
On 7/22/06, Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-07-22 01:36, W B Hacker wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
>> :...
>> :> 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>
>
> Seems to me that -i / -I should indeed sit at the top of the food-chain. Always.
>
> What one is saying in effect is "I may not have gotten all this right, or there
> may be surprises, so I want to see and specifically approve each/some actions".
The problem arises when -i/-I us used with -f, which by the same
reasoning also should be at "the top of the food-chain". -f says that I
know what I'm doing so don't bother me with asking for confirmation. Not
that I don't approve of the way things are at the moment but I can see
why some might not agree.
--
Erik Wikström






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