strange behavior of 'rm'

[Bernie Innocenti]

El Fri, 13-08-2010 a las 09:39 -0500, Mikus Grinbergs escribió:
> A couple of times I've found that the 'rm' command I issue for this
> purpose (e.g., from Terminal, while running as root) appears not to
> work.  [The latest occurred on os353pyg - I don't remember which earlier
> builds I saw it happen on.]  I'm mystified:
> 
> > 0 [~]# rm .sugar/default/favorite_activities
> > rm: remove regular file `.sugar/default/favorite_activities'? y
> > 0 [~]# rm .sugar/default/favorite_activities
> > rm: remove regular file `.sugar/default/favorite_activities'? y
> > 0 [~]# rm .sugar/default/favorite_activities
> > rm: remove regular file `.sugar/default/favorite_activities'? y
> > 0 [~]# ls -la .sugar/default/

I can't reproduce it here (os373pyg, but should have same kernel as
yours).

However, I have an idea: what's the contents of $LANG and $LANGUAGE? The
expected answer might not be "y" :-)

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