Bonehead Move

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Wed Feb 14 02:02:31 UTC 2007


linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:25:41 -0500
>>
>> Tod <tod at stthomasepc.org> wrote:
>>> Thus I ended up doing rm -fr ./ mydir.  Goodbye home
>>> dir.
>> Create a file named -i in your home directory to prevent
>> this from happening in the future.
> 
> How does this prevent that happening?
> 

Because rm takes the -i file as an option.


-i, --interactive
               prompt before any removal


For example:

mkdir ~/TEST
cd ~/TEST
touch -- -i
touch test
touch test2
touch test3
rm -fr *


And see what happens. :-)




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