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Bookmark or Share- linux - Remove file without asking - Super Userrm () { /bin/rm -i ${1+"$@"}; } Hence, none of the above answers regarding aliases did work. To counter the annoying behaviour I unset the rm function in my .bashrc file. unset -f rm I had a similar problem then the opener. However I did not found any answer that mentioned the possibility that rm is hidden by a shell function. So I added the ...
- How to recover a removed file under Linux? - Super UserAfter a bit longer time rm asked me if I wanted "to remove the write-protected file 'something'".Quite quickly I felt the chills and softly and very controlled I pressed Ctrl+c. ~Half of my ~ was deleted, but I managed to get everything of value back through above described grepping and some more or less current backups. I had some personally ...
- Linux rm non-interactive command - Super Userrm is hardcoded to ask "interactively" (prompt waiting for user input) on write protected files. there are two methods to prevent rm from asking: rm -rf somedir and. rm -r --interactive=never somedir (both also work without -r when deleting files instead of dirs) explanation:-f makes rm to "ignore nonexistent files and arguments, never prompt".
- What is the difference between rm -r and rm -f? - Super Userrm example $ rm example rm: cannot remove `example': Is a directory As you can see, rm does not remove directories by default. rm example -f $ rm example -f rm: cannot remove `example': Is a directory Using the -f flag still doesn't allow it to remove directories. rm example -r
- bash - Delete files with regular expression - Super Userxargs -d"\n" rm executes rm line once for every line that is piped to it. Where am I wrong? For starters, rm doesn't accept a regular expression as an argument. Besides the wildcard *, every other character is treated literally. Also, your regular expression is slightly off.
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