From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:50:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New option for rm: --interactive=once (-I).
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~709
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f97b02c197657c1e40f57d2ab98b2a83252e1282;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

New option for rm: --interactive=once (-I).
Document it, along with change to rm --interactive.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e641a1bf49..6c4be07e6d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change
   attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
 
+  rm --interactive now takes an optional argument, although the
+  default of using no argument still acts like -i.
+
   mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
   and sticky) with the -m option.
 
@@ -71,6 +74,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   updating its access time, on hosts that support this (currently only
   Linux kernels, version 2.6.8 and later).
 
+  rm now accepts the -I (--interactive=once) option.  This new option
+  prompts once if rm is invoked recursively or if more than three
+  files are being deleted, which is less intrusive than -i prompting
+  for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection
+  against mistakes.
+
   sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option,
   as well as the --seed=STRING option.