ok, just upgraded my laptop to MDK10 and to be blunt i like RH better, but the question i have is this.

how in the world do i make the stupid interactive mode go AWAY and stay away for things like rm cp mkdri etc???

im sorry, but one of the great things about *nix is when i tell the computer to do something it DOES it without harrasing me 50million times if i really want to do what i told it to do.

if i rm * i want said file gone NOW, not after answereing y or n.

please assist and advise. ty.

Mandrake has the -i option built into rm and cp. It also has a bunch of similar aliases. If you type 'alias' in your terminal you'll see all of those. You can remove them by using the unalias command (unalias -a for them all). However, I don't know if this is the way to permanently delete them, or if it just works in a single session, as I have never used it myself.

BTW, I don't see why this annoys you, buddy. I prefer it this way. I can double check what I'm rm'ing, and that's a good thing in my book.

Just use 'rm -f filename' if you want to delete anything.

it annoys me when i have to delete 100+ files in a dir that i misplaced and had moved them all already.

i no longer needed them were they were and did not want to waist my time with y+enter 100+ times.

i dont like it in windows either. if i tell the computer to do something i want it done. just me. dont like computers argueing with me.

the -f i take it will get rid of the -i issue?

mbegovic, thank you that unalias worked perfect for getting rid of the -i on rm/cp/mv for me.

thank you very much for the help.

Yes. Adding '-f' worked for me. Because I'm using fedora, by default the is no alias '-i'. I added the the '-i' in my .bashrc myself. But when I think it is safe to delete everything. I just add '-f' option so that the bash won't bother me with interactive mode. (I usually use '-rf').

ok thank you for the heads up.

fyi, what vs of fedora are you using and how simular is that to the older RH line? i am really missing RH as it runs so much faster on my hardware then MDK does. also runs much lighter then MDK.

older rh releases are faster & smaller . If you have lots of haddisk space and fast computer, Fedora is better.

ok thanks. well i have RH9, so it was the last of the RH release compaired it to MDK10 again latest release of thier software.

installing FedoraC1 now on a desktop to see how i like it compaired to RH9.

im looking for a soild server for my apache and maybe sendmail/postfix(not 100% ill use linux for mailserver yet as im really over my head with that) that will stay up to date for a while to come alowing me to keep it at least errata secure for close to 2yr before i have to OS upgrade.

ok that is my .bashrc standard default install with RH9 (MDK10 killed my system so i went back to RH9 as fedoraC1 did not recognise my NIC)

but here is my list of built in aliases:

id like premanetly change mv, rm, cp to all without the -i. still getting used to the CLI thing and its hard enough remembering all these new commands without having the dufaule OS screw with the settings like this.

can i just set them back to the .bashrc to rm = rm or is there an other place. there has to be some other file i can edit somehow to resolve this issue. please advise, and help.

thank you.

[edit to add] i can unalias, but that is only good until i logout or i close that counsol so that is not doing what it is supposed to do as i understand it.

still looking for how to make those changes permanet.