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Krog
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 Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:10 pm Post subject: rm -rf keeps asking confirmation |
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Hi all
i have my dumb script to update my gentoo box that contains the command:
| Code: | | rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/* |
i tried both "rf" and "fr" but it keeps asking confirmation... how is that possible?
the option -f should prevent any confirmation!
am I missing something? |
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1clue
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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If you have rm aliased to something containing an -i or an --interactive=always then it will ask for each file even with an -f.
Otherwise you may not have permission to remove some of the files. |
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1clue
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| That said, why would you want to clean out distfiles? |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Use eclean-dist. |
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frostschutz
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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aliases should not affect shellscripts, they would break/endanger too many scripts otherwise.
maybe rm is not what you believe it to be? maybe it's an ask-for-confirmation script you once installed and forgot. |
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Krog
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:49 am Post subject: |
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no aliases here...
another test:
| Code: | krogpc krog # mkdir test
krogpc krog # mkdir test/test
krogpc krog # touch test/test/1
krogpc krog # rm -fr test/*
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/krog/test [yn]? n
krogpc krog # rm -fr test
krogpc krog #
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it seems rm -fr something/* asks confirmation, rm -fr something no... a bug? |
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frostschutz
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:10 am Post subject: |
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zsh: may point to this being a zsh thing
see if it happens in bash
if not then dig into that zsh manpage |
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Krog
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| frostschutz wrote: | zsh: may point to this being a zsh thing
see if it happens in bash
if not then dig into that zsh manpage |
you were right, it's some zsh thing.
with bash the problem is not present.
thanks! |
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Chiitoo
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:22 pm Post subject: ><)))°€ |
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Indeed, one SpaceToast at #gentoo-chat of freenode mentioned that “they have the NORMSTARSILENT option enabled”.
I'm guessing this from the manual:
| Code: | RM_STAR_SILENT (-H) <K> <S>
Do not query the user before executing ‘rm *’ or ‘rm path/*’. |
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eccerr0r
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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tcsh has the same "problem" by default when you try to rm *...
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