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Re: rm issue
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: rm issue |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:06:35 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 2/17/2006 9:14 AM:
>> No. Those who want `short' can use -I.
>> Although --ask-once does sound nice, I want to keep things minimal,
>> in case we end up providing similar functionality for other commands,
>> where adding a long-named synonym might make an existing abbreviation
>> ambiguous -- --ask-once would do just that to cp --a(rchive).
>
> With that, here goes. Changes from the first submittal: --interactive
> without WHEN defaults to -i, NEWS and coreutils.texi touched up to match
> this change, and 2 test files are added.
>
> ChangeLog:
> 2006-02-18 Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> * TODO (rm): Implement rm -I.
> * NEWS: Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.
Thanks. Applied.