[Gllug] rm -R not working on Fedora

[Peter Childs]

Benedikt Heinen wrote:

>
>> Firstly, chmod and cp are not the same binary, so why should you expect
>> them to behave in the same way just because you pass them the same
>> letter as a parameter?
>
>
> In general you don't need to expect it - but in general it's tried 
> more and more that common functionality uses common command line flags 
> (-v is usually for "verbose", -f is often used for "force" and -r for 
> "recursive").
>
> Obviously, there are also commands that use the same flags for 
> different purposes if they don't have a similar function to the common 
> one, or if there are "historical" reasons for it...
>

    Worse still don't expect the command you type to always do the same 
thing. On our server at work (a honey well dps6) cd is "create 
directory" not "change directory"

    Be carefull

Peter.


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