[Mageia-dev] [Bug 8177] rm command can't delete file, unless using the full path for the rm binary "/bin/rm"

Thu Nov 22 15:45:39 CET 2012

On 22/11/12 11:19, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8177
+>
+> Thomas Backlund<tmb at iki.fi>  changed:
+>
+>             What    |Removed                     |Added
+> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+>               Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
+>           Resolution|                            |INVALID
+>                   CC|                            |tmb at iki.fi
+>
+> --- Comment #1 from Thomas Backlund<tmb at iki.fi>  2012-11-22 12:19:42 CET ---
+>
+> That is intended.
+>
+> rm is aliased to "rm -i" to ask the question as a safety feature, so you must
+> answer the question, not only press enter.
+>
+> $ touch testfile
+> $ ll testfile
+> -rw-rw-r-- 1 tmb tmb 0 Nov 22 13:14 testfile
+> $ rm  testfile
+> rm: remove regular empty file `testfile'? y
+> $ ll testfile
+> ls: cannot access testfile: No such file or directory
+>
+>
+> the other way to avoid the question is to do "rm -f"
+>
+
+Or if you happy to run rm as it was written and risk deleting something 
+you didn't want too, then comment out the alias (and any others that get 
+on your nerves:) ) from /etc/profile.d/60alias.sh
+
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