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[jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-12358) Add -safely flag to rm to prompt when deleting many files

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Andrew Wang commented on HADOOP-12358:
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Thanks of course to [~xyao] [~aw] and all for working on this and help reviewing!

> Add -safely flag to rm to prompt when deleting many files
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-12358
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12358
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: fs
>            Reporter: Xiaoyu Yao
>            Assignee: Xiaoyu Yao
>             Fix For: 2.8.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-12358.00.patch, HADOOP-12358.01.patch, HADOOP-12358.02.patch, HADOOP-12358.03.patch, HADOOP-12358.04.patch, HADOOP-12358.05.patch, HADOOP-12358.06.patch, HADOOP-12358.07.patch
>
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> We have seen many cases with customers deleting data inadvertently with -skipTrash. The FSShell should prompt user if the size of the data or the number of files being deleted is bigger than a threshold even though -skipTrash is being used.



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