Override prompt when deleting a file

[Tofik Suleymanov]

Micah wrote:

> Tofik Suleymanov wrote:
>
>> Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:51 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Robert Ftizpatrick <robert at webtent.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> I'm logged in to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box as 'admin' via ssh, why would I
>>>>> receive this override prompt?
>>>>>
>>>>> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la massage.xls
>>>>> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  admin  4463104 Aug 29 17:25 massage.xls
>>>>> -bash-2.05b$ rm massage.xls
>>>>> override rw-r--r--  admin/admin for massage.xls?
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Check the permissions on the directory?
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I did...
>>>
>>> -bash-2.05b$ ls -la
>>> total 460441
>>> drwxr-xr-x  18 admin  admin       1024 Nov 18 08:38 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x   5 admin  admin        512 Jan  4  2005 ..
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Robert
>>>
>> add alias ls 'ls -f' to shell startup script
>
> from man ls:
>  -f      Output is not sorted.
>
> How does sorting the output of ls affect the ability to remove the file?
>
> To original poster: is the immutable bit set on the file?
>
> HTH
> Micah
>
sorry,
i meant
alias rm 'rm -f'