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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-02-20 12:50:38 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2006-02-20 12:50:38 +0000
commitf97b02c197657c1e40f57d2ab98b2a83252e1282 (patch)
treea6a6e24416484beedc17a3dec38992ce9183639d
parent9d07927d52695e4c395fec2f70d15c4ad13f6d41 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-f97b02c197657c1e40f57d2ab98b2a83252e1282.tar.xz
New option for rm: --interactive=once (-I).
Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.
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@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
if your locale settings appear to be messed up. This change
attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
+ rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the
+ default of using no argument still acts like -i.
+
mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
and sticky) with the -m option.
@@ -71,6 +74,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
updating its access time, on hosts that support this (currently only
Linux kernels, version 2.6.8 and later).
+ rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option. This new option
+ prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three
+ files are being deleted, which is less intrusive than -i prompting
+ for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection
+ against mistakes.
+
sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option,
as well as the --seed=STRING option.