Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories
I demand that Andrew M.A. Cater may or may not have written...
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 05:12:50AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote:
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>> Maybe asking "Are you sure you want to do this", but outright refusing
>> to do something seems quite ridiculous to me.
> Of course, knowing that I do such things on occasion, I have aliased 'rm'
> to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along.
You have another option, "\rm", which will always give you unaliased "rm".
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