Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?

Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?

[Kevin M]

Hello,
I was wondering if there is a way to setup cygwin to ask before 
deleting files. I'm learning Linux and Cywin and so any help would be 
appreciated!

Thanks!
Kevin M




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Re: Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-12-12 21:54Z, Kevin M wrote:
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to setup cygwin to ask before 
> deleting files.

Is
  rm --interactive [files]
what you want?

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Re: Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Kevin M wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if there is a way to setup cygwin to ask before deleting 
> files. I'm learning Linux and Cywin and so any help would be appreciated!

Overall, I'd recommend getting yourself a good Linux/Unix utilities book.
You'll learn allot.  Also, 'man' and 'info' are your friends.  Speficially
in this case 'man rm' will point out to you that there's a '-i' flag
that will accomplish what you want.  If you want this when you use 'rm',
you can set up an alias to make 'rm' always equate to 'rm -i'.  Check out
'man bash' for information on how to do this with Bash.  If you use a
different shell, you can check out the man page for that shell instead.
And just a last book-keeping note - the Cygwin list is not a general
Linux/Unix help list.  We like to keep it to Cygwin-specific issues.  If
you have a question that doesn't fit into that mold, we prefer you find
another source (book, web site, email list/archive) for your answer.

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Re: Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?

[sowiso]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin M" <kmarkle@pbs.org>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:54 PM
Subject: Setup cygwin to ask before deleting a file?


> Hello,
> I was wondering if there is a way to setup cygwin to ask before 
> deleting files.

Alias the stuff:

alias rm='rm -i'

Ridiculously easy, eh?
:-)
-Andreas

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