From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: 'rm foo * bar' and answering 'n' runs 'rm foo bar'
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:41:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171130094108.4e14da88@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171129171933.jnctgmvbicuhrf6j@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:19:33 +0000
Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> As the subject says:
>
> $ zsh -f
> % cd $(mktemp -d)
> % touch foo bar baz
> % rm foo * bar
> zsh: sure you want to delete all 3 files in /tmp/tmp.e9ZNT40K4y [yn]? n
> % ls
> baz
> %
>
> This is counter-intuitive: users expect 'n' to abort the command
> entirely.
>
> It was brought up nine years ago:
>
> Thread starts: http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=13141
> Stéphane's patch: http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=13148
> Review: http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=13149
> Review: http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?USERNUMBER=13150
>
> So... Shall we commit users/13148?
>
> Mikael had a rebased version available, I've attached it (with
> permission).
That seems reasonable --- it's hard to think of a negative consequence.
pws
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2017-11-29 17:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2017-11-30 9:41 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
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