how do you kill the echo?

zeviddalop · 09-20-2004, 07:37 PM

just got mandrake and when i use the 'rm' command the shell will echo the command and the target file and i have to type y/n to execute it. i've seen shells where there's no echo and the command is just executed without asking for verification. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to configure mine to do that. thanks.

Demonbane · 09-20-2004, 07:41 PM

In fact by default rm does no confirmation, but some distros have the "-i" option aliased for your sake.
If you don't want the confirmation either add the "-f" option or execute it without any alias, ie "\rm"

leonscape · 09-20-2004, 07:44 PM

Check your .bashrc or .bash_profile to see if you have an alias on rm something like

alias rm='rm -i'

This is sometimes put in to help stop embarrassing errors. You could also try the option -f.

zeviddalop · 09-20-2004, 07:53 PM

thanks for the help. the -f extension is working fine but now i'd like to be able to enable it permenantly without having to type th -f all the time. And there don'tt seem to be any aliases set in either .bashrc or .bash_profile. Is there another way to do it that you're aware of?

caid · 09-20-2004, 08:08 PM

you could set your own alias in .bashrc or .bash_profile

e.g.

alias rm="rm -f"

caid

Tinkster · 09-20-2004, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zeviddalop
thanks for the help. the -f extension is working fine but now i'd like to be able to enable it permenantly without having to type th -f all the time. And there don'tt seem to be any aliases set in either .bashrc or .bash_profile. Is there another way to do it that you're aware of?

Some silly distro-maintainers put things like that
in /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile or a file under /etc/profile.d

You can check whether you have rm defined
to be an alias to rm -i by just typing
alias

You could then just do unalias rm...

Cheers,
Tink

zeviddalop · 09-20-2004, 10:15 PM

thanks a lot Tink! that did it. it was set to 'rm -i'. - zev

Tinkster · 09-20-2004, 11:48 PM

You're very welcome :)

Which steps to remedy it did you take, just out
of curiosity?

Cheers,
Tink

zeviddalop · 09-21-2004, 01:27 AM

Tink, i just changed the alias for 'rm'. but i just realized something else, after logging off and then back on the original alias is in effect again. when i changed it the first time i just did it from my home directory. how do you make it permanent? - zev

IBall · 09-21-2004, 01:34 AM

Add the command to .bash_profile or .bashrc

As suggested previously, I would check /etc/profile and the others to find out where it is set as an alias, and comment out that line. This way it takes effect for all users.

Are you sure that you don't want the confirmation though, since it can prevent stupid mistakes?

--Ian

Demonbane · 09-21-2004, 01:35 AM

Quote:

Some silly distro-maintainers put things like that
in /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile or a file under /etc/profile.d

Its in /etc/profile.d/alias.sh on Mandrake

zeviddalop · 09-21-2004, 08:12 AM

Thanks demonbane, that did it.