rm flags (was Re: Public Domain version of: yes(1))

[RAMontante]

In article <2606 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>>     rm < yes
>
>     yes | rm
>
>     rm < /dev/yes

Under the Ultrix here, "rm -f" overrides my aliased "rm -i" quite handily.
This also works as expected on the MSDOS port of rm that I use at home
(I had to compile in the "-i" default).

I seem to recall difficulty under BSD 4.x; is that why no one else suggested
this?