UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

era -- would I add this to my .bashrc file or a separate script by itself?

rm () {
local ask
ask="-i"
case $# in 1)
case $1 in your|excluded|files) ask= ;; esac ;;
esac
/bin/rm $ask "$@"
}

You could also use: # \rm [files]
When you wanted to delete the files that shouldn't be asked for deletion, it will omit the possible alias, and just use the default "rm" behaviour.

kthatch: you would add that to your .bashrc instead of the alias you have there now.

You could also get in the habit of using "rm -f" to suppress the question.

Thank you ALL for responding!

Pupp/Redhead --- I added another alias to my .bashrc (alias wlt='\rm -r work log tmp') and WHALAH! -- it overroad the previous alias rm='rm -r alias' entry and removed my 3 files without prompting --- Thank you!

Era --- I also, tried your soluiton. I added that to my .bashrc and it still prompted me to "examine files in directory ...". and so did using the -f option.

era --- as for my colors, here is the results to your question:

# which ls
/usr/bin/ls

# type -all ls
ls is /usr/bin/ls

You were supposed to edit the rm() function, not copy / paste smack dab, as at the time I wrote it I didn't know the names of the files you wanted to exclude. Change "your|excluded|files" to "log|work|tmp".

When you type ls you get /usr/bin/ls instead of /usr/local/bin/ls, which is apparently the version with color support. Like indicated previously, setting your alias to point explicitly to /usr/local/bin/ls will enable color support and you should no longer need to use the full path.

Yes, I did that --- sorry I did not clarify.

rm () {
local ask
ask="-i"
case $# in 1)
case $1 in work|log|tmp) ask= ;; esac ;;
esac
/bin/rm $ask "$@"
}