On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Bob Holtzman wrote:

> Hi,
> Anyone know how to get "rm -r" or "rm -r" to execute *non*interactively?
> This is supposed to be the default behavior, but isn't on my box. I'm 
> running RH7.2 but it did the same thing on my old RH6.0.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated as I get tired of sitting here half the day 
> clicking "y" endlessly.
> 
Thanks to everyone who replied. There were no pre-existing aliases in my
.bash_profile, so the first thing I tried was "\rm -r <dir>" and it worked 
like a charm.  
Many thanks.

-- 

Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 ........check the price of the beer!"