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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: More categories for aliases (was Re: something or other)
Message-ID: <1833@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 88 18:59:01 GMT
References: <1827@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <1044@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps)
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In article <1044@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1827@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>, creps@silver (Steve Creps) writes:
>> - To set default flags for a command (i.e. "alias rm rm -i" makes -i a default
>>   flag for rm instead of -f)
>"-f" is NOT a default for rm.

   It is on our system (which runs Ultrix 2.0). Actually, from what I've heard
on the net, "-f" is indeed the default for rm on most Unix-based systems. At
least, I've heard people say "-f" is the default, but have never before heard
anyone say "-i" is.

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