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Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: Interactivity (-i) and non-interactivity |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 03:49:41 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
So how come rm's -f can override -i?
It can't do that always. The standard specifies that the order of the
options -f and -i are important; the last one wins.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/rm.html
And how am I supposed to override the interactivity in cp?
Don't alias "cp" in the first place? Once suggestion earlier in the
thread is to call /bin/cp directly to avoid the shell alias. Another
would be defining a separate alias (say, cpi) for the modified
semantics.
To truly support -f and -i as you wish for cp, a wrapper script could be
used to preprocess the options and remove -i if -f is seen.
Cheers,
Phil