OT: the rm bug hit me again
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Oct 26 16:12:21 UTC 2006
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>> On 10/25/06, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Graphical file manager? That isn't the *nix way of doing things. :)
>>>
>>> And the -f in the rm command it to stop the "Confirm delete?" questions.
>>> My rm is set to confirm all deletes using alias.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> How exactly did you do this? I got bit by this bug once in my Linux
>> life, would prefer it never happens again.
>>
>
> alias rm='rm -i'
>
> Mike
And put it in your .bashrc file so it is there all the time.
This is what I have in mine. I use the --backup=t command to make
copies of files instead of overwriting the files. This way I don't
accidently destroy a file when one is a duplicate name of another.
~/.bashrc~:alias rm='rm -i'
~/.bashrc~:alias cp='cp -i --backup=t'
~/.bashrc~:alias mv='mv -i --backup=t'
~/.bashrc~:alias mp='mplayer'
Of course if you use the -f in with the rm command, you are toasted
anyways as the interactive response is overridden.
--
Robin Laing
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