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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:49:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B37416.8090708@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213224355.C6F7024050@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <m23arxun23.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
>> Why not do both? Unix untilities do it sometimes this way: Use an
>> interactive check for "scrubenv" but allow "scrubenv -force" not to
>> ask. As many of the U-Boot users know Unix, this would follow from
>> the "principle of least surprise"...
> 
> That would be exactly the other way round, i. e. provide an optional
> "-i" argument like "rm *" is doing in Unix.
> 
> The default shall be not to ask any questions.

rm defaults to not asking questions in *some* cases, but to asking in 
others.  Hence the -f flag to rm.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12  8:44 [U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-12 14:49 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-12 22:55   ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13  8:21   ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-13  8:56     ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13  9:18       ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-13 10:02     ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 10:13       ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13 10:33         ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 11:13           ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-13 12:55             ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 12:58               ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13 22:43             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 22:49               ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-02-13 23:03                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 23:04                   ` Scott Wood
2008-02-13 23:11                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 15:37                       ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-13 22:40         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 22:50           ` Scott Wood
2008-02-13 23:05             ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-14  5:20             ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-14  7:44               ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 15:52                 ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-15 16:11                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 16:40                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 17:12                     ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-15 20:27                     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2008-02-20 21:17                       ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-20 21:30                         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-02-21  0:04                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-22 12:00                         ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-18  9:41                     ` Martin Krause
2008-03-25 21:10                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 22:38     ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-12 22:38 ` Wolfgang Denk

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