Interactive rm

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

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,

[Pete Ellis · Accepted solution]

Set up an alias in your .profile

alias rm='rm -i'

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

hi,

alias rm="rm -i"

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

- ramd.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

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

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[T G Manikandan]

sh or ksh
alias rm='rm -i'

csh
alias rm rm -i

[John Meissner]

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

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

[Radhakrishnan Venkatara]

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

[Zafar A. Mohammed_1]

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

Zafar

[Paddy_1]

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 * .

[John Meissner]

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

[Paul Sperry]

Paddy,

Very cleaver, just what I was looking for