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by fainpul 83 days ago
I know how it works. Please don't nit-pick. It's an interruption that forces the user to confirm. That's what I meant.

I discussed this also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845740

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It's not nitpicking. The nature of the interruption being different is material. I've lost files to automatically answering yes to rm -i y/n confirm. Typing the hostname itself is different enough to get me, at least to stop and go wait, hold on. And snap me out of doing the wrong one. Especially an SSH gateway machine.