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Re: rfc patch, abort rm instead of only removing the * from the cmdline

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From: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: rfc patch, abort rm instead of only removing the * from the cmdline
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:52:09 +0100
Cc: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx>, zsh-users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:02:13PM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
[...]
> Maybe it was unclear from the context I gave, but I'm talking about this prompt:
> % rm *
> zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /tmp/a [yn]?
> 
> Answering no to this prompt, I would expect the command to not be run,
> but it is, with the * removed.
[...] 

With what version of zsh? I can't reproduce it here with the
current one.

% rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /tmp/a [yn]? n
% rm
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
%

Am I missing something?

-- 
Stéphane

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