Re: Deltree command?
David Gaudine wrote:
> 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.
For my less-brains-than-a-brick users, I do:
cat > -i
^D
in each dir that they normally work in. This way, when they 'accidentally'
do 'rm -r' in the dir, it also evals the -i and prompts them for
each file.. crude, but it works..
Tim
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