[RndTbl] rm -r crippled in Red Hat 8

[millward]

To my surprise, rm -r does not work in
Red Hat 8. I tried to rub out a directory
full of files and sub-directories and 
Red Hat asked for confirmation of deletion
for each and every file! I had to hit "y"
30 times just to delete the files in one
sub-directory alone. This is disgusting.
How do I get rm * and rm -r to work 
properly in Red Hat 8 ?