From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: "Zsh Hackers' List" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: rm * with count
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:20:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <160210132048.ZM3836@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160210164150.5bef82b2@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Feb 10, 4:41pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: PATCH: rm * with count
}
} Faced with a "rm *" prompt, it occurred to me it might be a little bit
} more helpful to decide if something has gone really horribly wrong if we
} made the easy tweak to count the number of files in the directory.
}
} Any comments on the following?
My only comment would be that this can potentially take a long time if
the number of files in the directory is large. Perhaps stop after some
number (100?) and prompt with
"sure you want to delete more than %d files in "
Also if the count is zero maybe the prompt should say something about
"no files to remove" or something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-10 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-10 16:41 Peter Stephenson
2016-02-10 21:20 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2016-02-11 11:50 ` Peter Stephenson
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