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Short option for rm --interactive=never


From: David Hesselbom
Subject: Short option for rm --interactive=never
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:59:07 +0100

Dear coreutils maintainers,

Quoting rm.c itself:

  enum interactive_type
  {
    interactive_never, /* 0: no option or --interactive=never */
    interactive_once, /* 1: -I or --interactive=once */
    interactive_always /* 2: default, -i or --interactive=always */
  };

interactive_once and interactive_always have short options, so why
doesn't interactive_never have one, say "-n"?

It would be nice to be able to run e.g.

rm -rn some_folder

instead of the more verbose

rm --interactive=never -r some_folder

The short option wouldn't necessarily have to be "-n", of course.

Kind regards,
David



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