Adam Funk wrote:
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:40, Pierg75 wrote:Somewhere i read that an alias should never be an alias of itself, something like alias rm='rm -i'alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias rm='rm -vi' alias cp='cp -vi' alias mv='mv -vi' alias cal='cal -3m' # week starts on Monday and I'm sure I got this idea from some reputable Unix books. This way rm always asks *except* when you use -f.
It works for sure, because somewhere i use it too. I was meaning about the comcept:because if you get use of this approach, when you go to work on a machine that doesn't have this alias, immagine what you coul do if you write rm /etc/apache/* because you are sure (or you don't pay attention) that would ask you to confirm. Since i read that article (it was on a magazine), i try to don't use this kind of aliases and to pay more attention on what i'm doing.
;-) PIer