[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56334] rmdir asks for for confirmation before recursively removing a directory

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #56334 (project octave):

I just confirmed that all Octave and Octave Forge code that uses 'rmdir (dir,
"s")' also sets the 'confirm_recursive_rmdir' flag to false locally before the
call. So all existing code wants the prompt to be disabled, and no Octave code
would be affected by changing the default or removing the prompt entirely.

So the only issue is the behavior for interactive users of Octave, and it
seems that Octave intentionally added this prompt to be user friendly, with
the option to disable it for Matlab compatible behavior. I would prefer the
prompt disabled, and you would, but that's also easy enough to do with an
octaverc file. Deciding to change defaults should probably be discussed on the
maintainers mailing list.

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