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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