Edwin Groothuis wrote:
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:19:28AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
rm(1) of FreeBSD:
I'm not so much worried about 'rm -rf /', but I'm more worried about "rm -rf *" in my home directory. It happened once because I was too happy switching directories before realising what I was doing in the wrong directory.
Also, refusing to do it is not the ideal way to go, I think that if you have two -f's specified it would do it anyway. Just my two cents of course.
Edwin
If you use tcsh for your shell add:
set rmstar
to your .cshrc file. Then anytime you use '*' as an argument to rm it will ask you if you are sure you want to do that.
As for adding this kind of oops-proofing. I'm not sure I like the idea of completely removing the ability to use / as an argument. How about prompting and needing 'yes' as input?
-- Ryan Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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