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rm: option -I and --interactive=once are not behaving equivalently
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Judit Foglszinger |
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rm: option -I and --interactive=once are not behaving equivalently |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:02:30 +0100 |
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Hi,
Regarding to the manpage and comments in rm.c,
the option -I of rm is meant to be the same as --interactive=once
It isn't, since when removing a write-protected file,
rm prompts if --interactive=once is given,
but it doesn't prompt, if -I is given.
This behaviour of rm -I is surprising,
since rm even prompts before removing a write-protected file,
if no extra interactivity is asked for.
It can be changed easily by changing line 268 of rm.c
from
x.interactive = RMI_NEVER;
to
x.interactive = RMI_SOMETIMES;
(see attached diff)
rmc.diff
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