On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > >Anybody should know that before typing "rm -rf *" or an equivolent, > >you THINK FIRST, every time. > > The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you > have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing. > > Everybody knows what you should think first. But who does after getting > used to it?
Generally, after installing any system, I add this to ~/.profile for root:- alias rm="/bin/rm -i" This pretty much stops me from doing anything stupid - especially by a typo, like mistyping rm /etc/*~ as rm /etc/*... I did that once :(. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
