[U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys

Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13T22:43:55Z

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.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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