If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to
your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source)
alias rm='rm -i'
This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do
not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter
how your shell is set up.
I guess you could try aliasing rm -f but I dont know if that is
possilbe or feasable.
John.
Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Using wildcards can dangerous when used with the rm command. From
> > experience, I know it is all too easy to type
> > rm -rf * ~ instead of rm -rf *~
>
> I get jittery even thinking about typing that in email....
>
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