Sep 20, 2016 · rm example $ rm example rm: cannot remove `example': Is a directory As you can see, rm does not remove directories by default. rm example -f $ rm example -f rm: cannot …

If you have rm from GNU coreutils (most probably if it's a regular Linux distro), rm -rf / will be refused by the built-in protection (according to manpage and Wikipedia, haven't tried that). …

Jun 12, 2015 · $ touch myfile $ chmod 400 myfile $ rm myfile rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `myfile'? So rm will warn you if you try to delete a file you don't have write …

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Mar 27, 2011 · Well, this doesn't really answer your question. But instead of using rm -i, consider aliasing rm to rm -I: The man page states:-I prompt once before removing more than three …

Anyway, this is a relatively new restriction, it was added in the 7th version of the POSIX specification (the previous one is here), before that rm -rf / was a perfectly valid command. On …

Feb 7, 2010 · Someone, either your system administrator or your linux distribution (you didn't specify what form of unix you are using) has aliased rm to rm -i. Take a look at what man rm …

The reason is -delete doesn't spawn a new process, while -exec rm {} \; invokes a separate rm for each matched file. If you cannot use -delete then your next thought should be -exec rm {} + …

is not atomic (another process could interfere between the cp and rm commands) requires storing the file data twice on disk for a short period (between the cp and rm commands) changes file …

When you have file names start with a dash (-), these file names could be mistakenly interpreted as options by the programs, such as rm(1). In this case, for example, if you have a file named …