From: Daniel47@teranews.com   
      
   Bit Twister wrote:   
   > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:11:36 +1100, Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >> In Linux (as root), I seem to be issuing lots of rm *.*'s and hitting   
   >> "Y" heaps with the occasional rd (directory). Back in DOS or Win3/95/98,   
   >> I'd probably have just entered something like "Del *.*" and "job done".   
   >>   
   >> Is there something like this for Linux??   
   >   
   > Two command line methods follow:   
   >   
   > 1    /bin/rm -r whatever_you_did_before   
   > 2    \rm -r whatever_you_did_before   
   >   
   > Reason you have the problem, run the following command:   
   >       type rm   
   > and run this command   
   >       man rm   
   >   
      
   O.K., so when I enter "type rm", I'm told that rm is aliased as "rm -i"   
   (so that's what Jim Kerr was talking about, and what Chris Johnson is   
   arguing against) which is telling Linux that I want to reply to each and   
   every directory/file removal.   
      
   rm -r or rm -R or rm -f would remove directories and files recursively.   
   (cut and paste into my "useful Linux Commands" file!!)   
      
   Right??   
      
   Daniel   
      
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