Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > You should have a "soft remove"... "rm -rf *" is a joke so old > I can't believe anyone still gets bitten by it. > > the "rm" command should be aliased to a script which moves the > target file to a "trashcan" directory somewhere which then gets
And then you sit down at another machine, blindly type in rm thinking it will babysit your stuff into the trashcan, and it doesn't. Oops. Bandaids are temporary, substandard replacements for real skin. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
