Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have

Code:

set alias rm='rm -i'

and i m able to see that in the list of aliases.

however, when i fire the rm command the '-i' interactive flag does not seem to kick in.

I login to a free online terminal and then i say bash to set the bash profile.

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Here is the output uploaded:

Please suggest a solution or another online terminal that help me do this.

Cant see the output, but I dont understand, where did/do you set your rm alias, after beeing in the session?

Sure you need the set? In my .profile, I have

Code:

        alias rm='rm -i'

I dont find the .profile and i guess if you log onto the free online terminal you too would not be able to see it under your login.

I set the alias like this -> alias rm='rm -i' in the .bashrc and .bash_profile under my home directory.

I am also able to see rm=rm -i set as an alias under my profile; however, it does not seem to kick in.

You can try and let me know if your rm alias works... if so how on this online unix terminal -> Join

An looks like my snapshot image has been removed for some reason.

Hi,

Try the following;

Code:

-bash-3.2$ alias rm="rm -i"
-bash-3.2$ rm test
rm: remove test (yes/no)? yes
-bash-3.2$

Regards

Gull04

That suggestion made a lot of sense to me.

I did as you said Gull that works.

So the point is rm -rf does not prompt for confirmation while rm -r works and asks for confirmation. Also rm -irf also works.

Can anyone now explain why is this so and how to fix so that "-i" flag works with "-f" flag ?

Hi,

Could you post the output of the alias command?

Regards

Gull04