On Jun 11, 23:25, Doug Yowza wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > And "rm -i *" prompts even with "-f".
>
> Not on Linux, at least.
>
> > AFAIK, all rm's have -r.
>
> I know -r is a fairly recent addition to "cp", but you may be right about
> "rm". Anybody have a V1 system they can test on? :-)
I wish :-)
"-r" certainly was an option to "rm" in 7th Edition, and IIRC (see other
thread :-)) "-i" overrides "-f" there too.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Fri Jun 12 1998 - 06:01:00 BST