Aliasing rm to rm -i for sudo

Matthew S-H mathbymath at aol.com
Mon Jun 20 22:45:47 UTC 2005


On Jun 20, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Markus Kolb wrote:
> Matthew S-H wrote on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 16:04:23 -0400:
>> On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Markus Kolb wrote:
>>> Matthew S-H wrote on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:24:47 -0400:
>>>> try adding:
>>>> alias "sudo rm"="sudo rm -i"
>>> That's an invalid alias name. "sudo rm" can't be a command.
>> Works fine for me...  Can anyone else confirm this?
> Which shell do you use?
>
> $ alias "sudo rm"="sudo rm -i"
> bash: alias: `sudo rm': invalid alias name

GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)




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