taskwarrior "task del" without confirmation dialog

Question

In taskwarrior there are some commands which need confirmirmation, like deleting more than 2 tasks or modify recurring tasks. I don't want to confirm every time and I have already set "confirmation off" in file .taskrc .

I'm using the subprocess module in python to invoke taskwarrior commands. I'm calling for example task del 1,2,3 and the shell waits now for a manual confirmation of the deletion request.

How can I avoid the manual confirmation?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 11:43

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You should add confirmation=no to ~/.taskrc.

Here's a one-liner to do that:

echo confirmation=no >> ~/.taskrc

answered Feb 06 '18 at 11:43

oldhomemovie

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 14:59

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already added confirmation=no to ~/.taskrc

a possible answer to the question could be

echo 'all' | task del 1,2,3

but there could be a better one

answered Feb 06 '18 at 14:59

Jighen

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What version of `task` are you using? – oldhomemovie Feb 14 '18 at 12:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '22 at 15:43

To disable confirmations entirely, I have the following in my taskrc:

# no confirmation on bulk actions
confirmation=off
bulk=0

This command will remove tasks 1, 2 and 3 without asking for confirmation:

$ task rc.bulk=0 rc.confirmation=off 1-3 delete

taskwarrior "task del" without confirmation dialog

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