Shell commands like to OS/2 shell (or MS PowerShell)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Apr 21 05:47:15 UTC 2010


Thomas Janssen wrote:
> Agreed. Plus a command like: filesystem.remove would confuse and scare
> novices. "Ugh, that removes my filesystem"

Well, if it scares them enough not to abuse rm -rf, that's a good thing. ;-) 
IMHO file deletions should always be performed through a graphical file 
manager with confirmation prompts. The GUI also reduces the risk of typos by 
a lot.

        Kevin Kofler



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