OT: the rm bug hit me again
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 26 17:15:09 UTC 2006
Robin Laing wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>> 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.
[snip]
> Of course if you use the -f in with the rm command, you are toasted
> anyways as the interactive response is overridden.
That's the way I have my root account set up. I execute the command,
and answer several until I make sure that its doing what I expect, then
if it's going to be a long tiresome process to do each one, I
use ^C and reissue the command with -f.
Mike
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