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Re: shell-mode flakey
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: shell-mode flakey |
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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:25:17 +0100 |
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On 2007-12-19 01:31 +0100, Miles Bader wrote:
> Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
>> When I discussed this some time ago with one of the bash
>> maintainers, he said that he had just recovered all files of a
>> colleague who had typed "rm foo *" instead of "rm foo*". For those
>> and only those cases I'd like to have a reliable interactive query
>> before rm will do its job.
>
> One simple possibility might be a "--query-if-multiple" option, which
> would act like -i if there was more than one command-line filename
> argument.
>
> That wouldn't help for all cases, but I think it would catch a large
> proportion of common typos...
In coreutils 6.0 and higher, a similar option is implemented. From the
NEWS file:
,----
| rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option. This new option
| prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three
| files are being deleted, which is less intrusive than -i prompting
| for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection
| against mistakes.
`----
Cheers,
Sven