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I want to be able to remove oracle things without asking me : rm (yes/no)

Hi experts.

Solaris 5.8.
I want to be able to remove oracle things without asking me : rm (yes/no)
Also I'am doing a rm -f with no sucess.

/export/home/oracle>rm *.txt
rm: remove crontab_oracle.txt (yes/no)? yes
rm: remove prepaid_summary.txt (yes/no)? yes

woolmilkporc

Use

rm -f

wmp

LindaC

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oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>rm -f afiedt.buf
rm: remove afiedt.buf (yes/no)?

woolmilkporc

Or do you have an alias?

alias rm

?

LindaC

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/export/home/oracle/tmp>alias rm
rm='rm -i'

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LindaC

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Great!

/export/home/oracle>ls -ltr af*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle dba 287 Mar 14 2003 afiedt.buf
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>/usr/bin/rm af*
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>ls -ltr af*
af*: No such file or directory
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>

LindaC

ASKER

This also great!
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>\rm -f sqlnet.log
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>
/export/home/oracle>ls -ltr sqlnet.log
sqlnet.log: No such file or directory
oracle@centurion[ctimsd1]<deadbeef>

woolmilkporc

... and shorter

LindaC

ASKER

I choose the Best solution because it was shorter.

woolmilkporc

OK, it's been me who suggested checking for an alias, but who cares ...

xterm

rm -i means to ask for confirmation.

rm -f should actually override that alias, but it won't do so in a directory that is write-protected

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)

You would need to do (as root) 'chmod u+w oracle' in /export/home

LindaC

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Wollmilk*

I chose your answer as the best solution. The other person (blu) also help in a very different manner, not the best because it was larger.

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