rm -rf and recursive nothing

Sat Jul 22 06:40:36 PDT 2006

Erik WikstrÃ¶m wrote:
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.
I don't agree with the meaning.  For me -f means "try to remove in every case and don't fail", i.e. also remove write-protected files and don't fail if the files didn't even exist.

cheers
 simon
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