Re: I hate it when that happens...

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from listcomm@ml1.net:
> You should have a "soft remove"...  "rm -rf *" is a joke so old
> I can't believe anyone still gets bitten by it.
> 
> the "rm" command should be aliased to a script which moves the
> target file to a "trashcan" directory somewhere which then gets

And then you sit down at another machine, blindly type in rm thinking
it will babysit your stuff into the trashcan, and it doesn't.  Oops.

Bandaids are temporary, substandard replacements for real skin.


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