Stop Microsoft
Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: distortion on 3 February 2003, 00:26
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ok so when you're using konsole, or eterm, or any other terminal emulator, is there any way to get redhat 7.3 to stop asking me whether or not i'm sure that i really what to remove whatever it is i'm trying to delete without using "rm -f"?
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Yes. There'll probably be an alias in /etc/bashrc or in .bashrc in your home directory like
alias rm='rm -i'
which puts rm in interactive mode whenever you run it, prompting you for each file. Just remove that line.
[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]
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It's just my adaptation of a quote from the monty python film Life Of Brian, where Brian goes up to a group of freedom fighters and asks:
"Are you the Judean People's Front?"
and they answer
"Fuck off! We're the People's Front Of Judea. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fuckin Judean People's Front. Fuckin splitters."
Or maybe it's the other way round, and they're the JPF, I can't remember. The point is, the joke is that they're both fighting against the same thing, but the fact that the other group has split off from them and presumably followed some different idealogical line makes them end up hating the other group more than the thing they're both opposing.
It just annoys me that the Open Source movement and the term "Open source" gets mentioned everywhere while GNU and "Free Software" gets comparatively little attention. And that people think the two things are synonymous.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html)