To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, millward wrote:
To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
unalias rm
it's probably set to rm -i.
Cheers.
--- Michael J. Dikkema, CCNP, CCIP Senior Systems Engineer - Qanda Networks mjd@moot.ca
On July 10, 2004 08:54 pm, millward wrote:
To my surprise, rm -r does not work in Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory full of files and sub-directories and Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion for each and every file! I had to hit "y" 30 times just to delete the files in one sub-directory alone. This is disgusting. How do I get rm * and rm -r to work properly in Red Hat 8 ?
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Same as in Mandrake. I think this is a thing with the root account. Try "rm -rf <dir_name>".
Later Mike
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