OT: the rm bug hit me again

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Oct 27 14:58:29 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:41 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:

> Better to alias it to some command which doesn't exist, like del, and
> train yourself to use del. If the alias isn't present all you get is
> 'del: command not found' rather than a depleted filesystem. 

I seem to recall that del was a preset alias on some Linux
distributions, some time ago.

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