Just to confirm, this prompts whether the command should be run or not, i.e.

Dec 29, 2021

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Sometimes when we execute destructive operations like rm -f, we might want to ask the user for confirmation. The -p option can do this for us. It stands for — interactive and prompts the user for yes/no confirmation.

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Just to confirm, this prompts whether the command should be run or not, i.e. delete all the files or not.

The example after, shows how you can get a prompt for each delete or `rm` action for individual files.

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