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 17:04:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B37791.3010109@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213230303.9ED3224050@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <47B37416.8090708@freescale.com> you wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Oops??? "rm" never asks unless you ask it to ask.
Not true. It will ask if you don't have write permission to the file,
even if you are able to delete because you have write permission to the
directory.
The -f flag wouldn't be there if it were a no-op...
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-13 23:04 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
2008-02-13 23:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 23:04 ` Scott Wood [this message]
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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