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[Blake Barnett]

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.
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