Redhat 7.3 and rm aliases
Collins
erichey2
Mon May 17 11:39:24 PDT 2004
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:19:28 -0600 Andrew Mathews
<andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > One of the traits I hate most in a distro is the decsion made
> > without asking to alias everything like rm with a prompt for
> > confirmation (even for the root user #!&%). Usually I can find
> > and fix that fairly quickly, but after massive amounts of
> > grepping I can't seem to find where that is done by Redhat. I
> > get damn tired of keying /bin/rm.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue where this is done by Redhat?
> >
> > --
> > Collins Richey -- Denver Area
> > Redhat 7.3 system
> >
>
> I would guess you're talking about the aliases in .bashrc.
> # .bashrc
>
> alias rm='rm -i'
> alias cp='cp -i'
> alias mv='mv -i'
One of my first thoughts. Unfortunately there are no such aliases
anywhere in ~ or /etc.
--
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Redhat 7.3 system
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