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Unable to use yes -command to all questions when removing

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?

Solution

  • 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