Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 01:30:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: rsnow@lgc.com Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, "David O'Brien" <deobrien@ucdavis.edu> Subject: Re: Yes lives! Message-ID: <199702010930.BAA25041@foo.primenet.com> References: <> <Pine.SGI.3.95.970130083930.14022B-100000@dympna>
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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
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