On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does > what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask > you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access > to). > > I hope I don't need to say how extremely dangerous these commands are, > and how careful you should be when using them. For sure. In fact, I'd be careful about counting on rm -r to prompt you. -f or --force means no prompting, -i or --interactive means prompting, and I think the default is no prompting unless the "noclobber" environment variable is set. This may depend on the shell though. I just tried it with tcsh and "noclobber" didn't help. [checks the man page] [checks the info page] Aw heck, use -i. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
