topic Re: Interactive rm in Operating System - HP-UX

Interactive rm

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:56:32 GMT

Hi,

I want to make the rm command to run in the interactive mode by default. What needs to be done?

# rm (filename)
should work like
# rm -i (filename) but I need to type only

# rm (filename)

Thanks,

Re: Interactive rm

Pete Ellis — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:06:14 GMT

Set up an alias in your .profile

alias rm='rm -i'

Re: Interactive rm

Ramkumar Devanathan — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:06:49 GMT

hi,

alias rm="rm -i"

Add the above to your ~/.login or ~/.profile file.

- ramd.

Re: Interactive rm

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:08:03 GMT

Hi:

Simply create an alias in your $HOME/.profile:

# alias rm='rm -i'
# alias rmdir='rmdir -i'

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Interactive rm

T G Manikandan — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:59:39 GMT

sh or ksh
alias rm='rm -i'

csh
alias rm rm -i

Re: Interactive rm

John Meissner — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:03:47 GMT

insert an alias into your .profile or into /etc/profile

alias rm="rm -i"
alias rmdir="rmdir -i"

Re: Interactive rm

Radhakrishnan Venkatara — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:10:33 GMT

hi,

u can use alias which is the inbuilt shell command. place it in any in your .profile or in /etc/profile.

alias rm="rm -i"

alias name can be anything . so be careful in doing it.

radhakrishnan

Re: Interactive rm

Zafar A. Mohammed_1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:46:28 GMT

Just add one line in your .profile file:
alias rm='rm -i'

Zafar

Re: Interactive rm

Paddy_1 — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:28:58 GMT

the solution is already given in the above messages.i just want to add a different facet.

create a file called -i in the directory you wish to have .In shell "-" has precedence over letters and hence rm * command will be interpreted as rm -i * .

Re: Interactive rm

John Meissner — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:09:40 GMT

Paddy,
That quite interseting ... I never thought about that. This is a clever way to pass the -i option to anyone on the system regardless of alias's. especially if you want to protect a specific directory.

Clever

Re: Interactive rm

Paul Sperry — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:32:14 GMT

Paddy,

Very cleaver, just what I was looking for