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In localhost.freebsd.chat you write:

>Yes, I know the -y switch all to well, unfortunately.  I was just reminded
>that once upon a time there wasn't a -y and we had to do things a bit
>different.  I was just wondering if there was actually any other use for
>yes.

Well, someone aliased my rm to rm -i, so...

yes | rm (blah)

was an option.

Of course, a better option is:

/bin/rm (blah)

or even better, to unalias rm