John Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JS> If you want a little bit of safety you can alway add this to JS> your .bashrc (or what ever shell profile you source) JS> JS> alias rm='rm -i' JS> JS> This will ask you to confirm your deletions, so long as you do JS> not use the -f option. The -f option will just do it no matter JS> how your shell is set up.
Even better, don't alias rm; instead, pick a command name like 'delete' and alias that to 'rm -i'. Why? Eventually you'll be working on a system that doesn't have the alias, or you forget to put the alias in root's dotfiles, and carelessly type 'rm *' expecting to be asked for each file. Lacking the alias, you won't be asked, and will likely be quite upset at the results. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
