12 окт. 2011 г. · The rm command, by default, silently removes the named file. By aliasing it to rm -i, you can get into the habit of not checking carefully before pressing ...

27 нояб. 2009 г. · If the file does not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the exit status to reflect an error.

4 сент. 2017 г. · The rm command removes files. The -r option will perform a recursive removal and the -f option will remove files without prompting you to confirm that you wish ...

24 нояб. 2014 г. · I want to delete the build folder recursively. If I do rm -rf Bar, then the symlink is removed, but the actual contents are not removed.

26 мар. 2011 г. · Put the rm process in the background with Ctrl+Z . · Recall the last command (the rm -i * command) · Remove the -i · Enter to run the command · fg % ...

28 сент. 2010 г. · rm is hardcoded to ask "interactively" (prompt waiting for user input) on write protected files. there are two methods to prevent rm from asking.

28 окт. 2014 г. · I want rm to prompt me when recursively deleting a directory, as in: $ rm -r <dir> Do you want to remove the dir(Y/N)?.

27 июн. 2014 г. · Use xargs like this: find /backups/ -mtime +5 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf -0 is there to handle filenames with spaces properly.

20 сент. 2016 г. · rm -r emptydir removes that directory, rm -f emptydir does not. These are two completely different command line options, each doing whatever its documentation ...

31 авг. 2019 г. · This command is not dangerous, but it does exactly what it's told, which is to delete things. The safest way to use rm is to not give it unnecessary flags.