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Deleting safely with a prompt in Linux

LinuxFiles & Directoriesrmintermediate

What this snippet does

-i asks before each deletion, which is worth the extra keystrokes on unfamiliar paths.

Expected output

rm: descend into directory 'old-project'? y

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