[GRASS5] [bug #820] (grass) Idea: links for g.remove, g.list,, g.rename maybe others

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Fri Nov 2 07:56:30 EST 2001


On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:44:48AM +0100, Request Tracker wrote:
> Related to this:
> g.remove behaves almost as I would like to... if no data
> type specifier is given, it defaults to rast. IMHO that is quite
> dangerous. If I want to remove the vector cover my_dear_map and manages to
> writes g.remove my_dear_map (because that is more similiar to a typical
> unix shell command), it removes quite happily the raster file
> my_dear_map....

Hi,

I agree - at least for g.remove [g.mremove] there should be no default
data type to avoid above potential problem.

Any objections to change g.remove?

Markus



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