Just a guess, but RH probably has "rm" aliased to something else. I think
Mandrake does this too. Anyway, if this is the case, you can undo the
alias for the current login shell by typing (assuming you're using Bash):
alias rm=rm
~Jay
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, 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.
>
> Any help would be appreciated as I get tired of sitting here half the day
> clicking "y" endlessly.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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