Posted on Monday, December 24th (1503 days ago)

Web Developer’s Christmas Eve

Most normal people are spending time with their families, basking in the Holiday glory.  I’ve tip-toed off to my desk, and am looking up how to force file overwrites with shell scripting.  What’s wrong with me?

-i — interactive. Prompts you to confirm

the deletion. This option can stop you from deleting a file by mistake.

-f — force. Overrides interactive mode

and removes the file(s) without prompting. This might not be a good idea,

unless you know exactly what you are doing.

-v — verbose. Shows a list of files as they are being removed.

-r — recursive. Will delete a directory and all files and subdirectories

it contains.