Is there a way to have a Y/N confirmation after Remove file/directory

Question

I'm new to Linux and its terminal. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, trying to learn about the Terminal's commands. I learned how to remove files and directories but saw that the system never asks you if you are sure to remove or not, like showing a Y/N question, is there a way to have that (instead of using rmdir and rm and rm -R) ? like some command that generates a Y/N confirmation question.

Answer 1

When you type rm -i fileA fileB fileC, you'll get asked for confirmation for every file.

So you could define the alias rmi=rm -i in your shell's configuration (e.g. ~/.bashrc for bash), and learn to type rmi instead of rm.

Some Linuxes even define rm=rm -i, but then you'll start relying on this behavior whenever you enter rm.

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You could also install trash, which brings a "move to trash" command to your shell.