Thanks for all your responses.
I think that bash as a programming language is also an everyday tool. The
idea of a strong character that selects all files, is it bad?
Le jeu. 14 avr. 2016 à 09:07, Stephane Chazelas
a écrit :
> 2016-04-13 11:23:01 +0000, Anis ELLEUCH:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I would like to ask if it is possible to disable expanding asterisk when
> it
> > selects all entries ?
> >
> > `$ rm * .jpg` with a mistaken space between asterisk and .jpg will delete
> > everything in your home directory or in the entire disk.
> >
> > In my opinion, when the user asks to select "everything" which could be
> `*`
> > or `path/*`, bash has to show a confirmation prompt to check if the user
> > was not mistaken, this option should be obviously disabled by default
> >
> > Another idea: `*` and `/*` should not be interpreted and the user has to
> > enter another sequence "more powerful" to emphasize selecting all
> entries (
> > `^*` would it work just fine ?)
> [...]
>
> zsh does that by default:
>
> $ rm * .jpg
> zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /tmp [yn]?
>
> (disabled with "setopt RM_STAR_SILENT")
>
> Also in tcsh, though not enabled by default there:
>
> > set rmstar
> > rm *
> Do you really want to delete all files? [n/y]
>
> (they match on "rm *" or "rm dir/*")
>
> For bash, you can try this approach:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108803/preventing-deletion-of-system-shell-aliased-folders/108854#108854
>
> --
> Stephane
>
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