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According to Angelo Graziosi on 1/28/2006 8:28 AM:
> 
>    rm -i foo.txt <return>
>    
>    rm: remove regular file `foo.txt'? y <backspace> n <return>
> 
> 
> With <backspace> the cursor should remove 'y' at which place should
> appears 'n'.

Sounds like an stty setting mismatch to me.  If your backspace is not
mapped to the terminals' erase, then rm sees the three-character literal
string "y\177n" rather than the one-character string "n".  POSIX requires
that rm must parse a leading "y" in the response as yes, even if followed
by a backspace leaked through by improper terminal settings.

At any rate, I'm glad that you seemed to resolve it, according to your
followup message.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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