On Ma, 01 mai 12, 19:15:19, Indulekha wrote: > > It's always wise to alias "rm" to "rm -i" in your shell. > Also learned the hard way, when the combination of a killer > headache and time pressure caused me to delete a bunch of > things years ago... I used to think so as well, but consider situations where your delete pattern matches a lot of files, are you going to press 'y' for each and every one of them? You will probably interrupt and add -f as well, which may do more than what you wanted. What if you work on another machine where 'rm' is not aliased to 'rm -i'? What I do is always check my pattern with tab completion before pressing Enter, even if I need -rf, because it's possible to add switches at the end as well ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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