On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:31, Matthew Dillon wrote:
The university I used to work for had something like it and it got 99% of the cases > Yow. 78 messages and counting. Er, 79 now. I'll bet poor Giorgos > wishes he never started this thread! Get ready..... get set.... DIVE! > > A good friend of mine has, for at least the last two decades, used > something along the lines of: > > if ( $?prompt ) then > alias rm 'mv \!* $HOME/misc/trash' > endif > > However, it seems that the correct solution is to create a new option, > -I, which puts rm into 'idiot user mode' and has all the desired > confirmation effects listed in this thread and none of the undesired > effects such as -i returns. Then if anyone wants to use it they > can just create an alias similar to the above for -I and poof, problem > solved. It's fairly easy to detect '*' and ask for confirmation, > and also easy to ask for a single confirmation on a directory (not > ask again for any recursion). > > Then you guys can argue over whether the alias should appear in the > system-wide default csh.cshrc and friends, rather then argue over > the destruction of rm's basic nature. I will only point out that 'rm' > is used fairly universally in scripts and there are obviously things > other then '/' that you would want to ask confirmation for that just > as obviously cannot be made default operation for rm. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
