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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Problem with 'rm -i' in ksh
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:21:29 +0100
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On 11.01.2025 15:01, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> On 2025-01-11, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>   rm -i "${!a_set[@]}"
>> =>
>> rm: remove regular file `rmd2'? rm: remove regular file `rmd4'? rm:
>> remove regular file `rmd9 2'? rm: remove regular file `rmd9 3'?
> 
> Well, that's what you get when you redirect stdin to null:
> 
> $ rm -i *
> remove a? n
> remove b? n
> remove c? n
> $ rm -i * </dev/null
> remove a? remove b? remove c? $
> 

Yeah; only that I haven't any [explicit] redirection of stdin (let
alone a redirection to /dev/null).

But your suggestion reminds me to inspect the strace log; maybe I'll
find any hints on that...

Janis