Unable to use yes -command to all questions when removing

Question

I get a long list of read-only protected files when I run

rm -r trunk | yes

I am trying to answer yes to all by one command.

How can you answer yes to all questions?

score 150 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 13 '13 at 18:12

150

You have it backward, the correct way is:

yes | rm -r trunk

But the better command would be to have rm not ask you in the first place with:

rm -rf trunk

edited Aug 13 '13 at 18:12

Zuul

answered Apr 25 '09 at 22:24

AndrewF

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This will also remove the directories themselves (rm does not do this by default). However, I'd wager that's usually what you want anyway. – Michael Madsen Apr 25 '09 at 22:25
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@MichaelMadsen: That's true with or without the `-f`: the OP include `-r` in the question. – brianmearns Aug 13 '13 at 18:16

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