You can use "rm -i", and then<div>you'll be asked to specify yes</div><div>or no to remove each file in a set</div><div>of files. As to whether you really</div><div>want to, well, there has to be </div><div>
some limit as to how much the</div><div>user is protected from their own</div><div>actions or you'll never get anywhere.</div><div><br></div><div>e.g., "are you really, really sure?"</div><div><br></div><div>
-- Bob</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peyeps@iserv.net">peyeps@iserv.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't remember it correcting my command and running anyway.<br>
<br>
Running at the command line, one must be more careful. You don't get the<br>
"do you really want to delete this file?" message with rm for example that<br>
you get with gui. However, I will admit that I've frequently gotten the<br>
command not found message. Guess I'm glad that's all I get. I suppose<br>
I've been lucky.<br>
<br>
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