The aliases are there for a good reason, they'll keep you from deleting all your porn in one fell-swoop. To override it use "rm -rf dir" (-f = force). On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 02:04, John (EBo) David wrote: > 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. > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Blake Barnett (bdb) Sr. Unix Administrator DevelopOnline.com office: 480-377-6816 Learning is a skill, you get better at it with practice.