rmstarwait doesn't work for me

rmstarwait doesn't work for me

[Jens Kubieziel]

Hi,

in a german newsgroup there was a discussion about undeleting files and
someone came up with zsh's option 'rmstarwait'. However I tried to
'setopt rmstarwait' and to delete a (previously copied) directory ('rm
test/*'). It was deleted without any waiting or comments. Further
testing gave me same results. What could be the problem here (zsh
4.2.5)?

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Re: rmstarwait doesn't work for me

[Christian Schneider]

* Jens Kubieziel <maillist@kubieziel.de> typed:
> in a german newsgroup there was a discussion about undeleting files and
> someone came up with zsh's option 'rmstarwait'. However I tried to
> 'setopt rmstarwait' and to delete a (previously copied) directory ('rm
> test/*'). It was deleted without any waiting or comments. Further
> testing gave me same results. What could be the problem here (zsh
> 4.2.5)?

I couldn't reproduce it.
,----
| [dope@painless:~]% zsh -f
| painless% setopt rmstarwait
| painless% rm /etc/*
| zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /etc? (waiting ten
| seconds)
|  [yn]? n
| painless% setopt
| interactive
| monitor
| norcs
| rmstarwait
| shinstdin
| zle
| painless% zsh --version
| zsh 4.2.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
| painless%
`----
-- 
panic("sun_82072_fd_inb: How did I get here?");
        linux-2.2.16/include/asm-sparc/floppy.h

Re: rmstarwait doesn't work for me

[Jens Kubieziel]

* Christian Schneider schrieb am 2005-05-23 um 22:47 Uhr:
> * Jens Kubieziel <maillist@kubieziel.de> typed:
> > in a german newsgroup there was a discussion about undeleting files and
> > someone came up with zsh's option 'rmstarwait'. However I tried to
> > 'setopt rmstarwait' and to delete a (previously copied) directory ('rm
> > test/*'). It was deleted without any waiting or comments. Further
> > testing gave me same results. What could be the problem here (zsh
> > 4.2.5)?
> 
> I couldn't reproduce it.

PEBKAC, sorry.
I forgot to unalias my rm, (alias for a shellscript).

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Re: rmstarwait doesn't work for me

[zzapper]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 23:08:56 +0200,  wrote:

>PEBKAC

PEBKAC stands for Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

not in WTF

This patch adds a new option, RM_STAR_WAIT, that causes zsh to wait ten
seconds before accepting any input at the "sure you want to delete all
files?" prompt.  This was suggested to me after a friend accidentally
did `rm *' in his home directory and reflexively typed `y' at the query.
(To make matters worse, he has GLOB_DOTS set.)


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