(no subject)

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 07 Mar 2002 02:04:58 -0700


Bob Holtzman wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Anyone know how to get "rm -r" or "rm -r" to execute *non*interactively?
> This is supposed to be the default behavior, but isn't on my box. I'm
> running RH7.2 but it did the same thing on my old RH6.0.

it is likely aliased...

try running "\rm -r ..."  the "\" tells the shell to exececute the
command and NOT preprocess it.  Hopes this is what you mean...

> Any help would be appreciated as I get tired of sitting here half the day
> clicking "y" endlessly.