[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] Brian Mays: > Wouldn't it be nice to provide newbies with the alias rm='rm -i'? That would mean that newbies would learn that rm always asks whether to remove the files, and leads to two severe problems: 1. You almost always answer `y', so it becomes a reflex. The question won't help against reflexes, and often enough you'll mistakenly delete files anyway. (Been there, done that.) 2. You will be _really_ angry when you use rm on a non-Debian system, and assume it will ask. (Seen that, explained that there is no unrm.) Setting the prompt won't help much against rm mistakes, either. Implementing unrm is the best solution, but is obviously much harder. If I remember correctly, however, the ext2 filesystem does have some hooks for this already. -- Please read <http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html> before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list.
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