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How to make rm -fr command to be interactive

December 31, 2013 by Sharad Chhetri Leave a Comment

In this post I am sharing the tip, how to make rm -fr command to be interactive. As we know if you hit the command rm along with switch -fr ,it will remove the files and directory recursively. Sometimes because of human mistake any important file or directory can be removed.
When you hit the command rm -fr it will not ask any question and it will remove the file or folder. To avoid such kind of mistake it is good to have interaction of question before removing any file/directory.

To make rm -fr command to be interactive ,create a blank file named -i in that directory where important directory/file exists. You can also create -i file in / .By this method, before recursively and forcefully removing the directories and files,it will first ask question to be removed

touch ./-i

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Sharad Chhetri is an experienced Linux - Cloud Engineer & freelancer. Working on Open Source Technology since RHEL 4.0 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). He loves sharing the knowledge which earned from real scenarios. Don't be surprised if you find him in technology seminars and meetup groups. You can contact him on email for freelance projects at admin@sharadchhetri.com. Read More…

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