Recovering directory

[Rob Blomquist]

On Monday 30 October 2006 23:47, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> How do you figure that's going to put "rm -rf" on a leash?
>
>        -f, --force
>               ignore nonexistent files, never prompt
>
>        -i, --interactive
>               prompt before any removal
>
>        -r, -R, --recursive
>               remove directories and their contents recursively
>
> If you want a leash, omit the "f" next time.

It seems pretty stupid to allow -f to never prompt, if an explicit -i is 
involved.

One distro I used to run (Mandriva?) had the alias setup, and rm -rf was on a 
leash, with the query needing to be answered and it saved my tush several 
times. But maybe rm was altered to for f to pay attention to the explicit -i 
flag.

Rob

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