17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
2:48 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:02:17 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anil Mare wrote:
I think the only option here is to give rm * and answer no to all confirmations except that particular file.
please, read the docs before suggesting something so daft. unix is over 30 years old. you'd think there were many others who came across this problem.
AFAIK, some systems have rm aliased to rm -i by default. Red Hat has it done for root. I think Mandrake has it for all users. (It's that way on sourceforge and sourceforge uses Mandrake, hence the not-so-solid inference).
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