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Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: aussie on February 13, 2004, 03:46:50 AM

(I hope this is not too DUMB!)

Both cp and rm have the -i parameter to interactively check each file before action.

Sme setups seem to have this by default:
how do you override it, as I WANT to be able to
rm *.xxx to remove all .xxx files without interaction.

TIA Rob  :pint:

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: ddougan on February 13, 2004, 04:28:51 AM

Use the -f option (for force).

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: grand-pa on February 13, 2004, 05:07:15 AM

If you want to definitly modify these options, you can edit ~/.bashrc and remove or comment the 3 aliases. :hammer:

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: raem on February 13, 2004, 05:08:26 AM

You could have done
man rm
at the command prompt to find out the correct syntax required, as you can also do with most other commands, assuming that a manual page(s) exist for it.

Regs
Ray

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2004, 05:10:12 AM

Quote from: "ddougan"

Use the -f option (for force).

i tried that ! still get 'overwrite' prompt.
regards Rob

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: raem on February 13, 2004, 05:19:56 AM

What command are you actually entering ?

This works OK for me
rm -f 1.*
which deletes 1.msg and 1.txt without prompting
or
rm -f *.msg
deletes all *.msg files without prompting
Regs
Ray

Title: cp & rm defaults
Post by: Anonymous on February 13, 2004, 05:20:06 AM

Quote from: "grand-pa"

If you want to definitly modify these options, you can edit ~/.bashrc and remove or comment the 3 aliases. :hammer:

GoodOnYa Grand-Pa !! THATS what I wanted.

oh and Ray, i DID man and info before posting but either the bashrc aint there or i missed it.

Anyway THERE IT IS BOLD AS BRASS in /root/.bashrc
alias cp='cp -i'
so I #'d that out and I am happy !!

thanks to all,
Robert