Re: file recovery and format

[Garst R. Reese]

John Weiss wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:46:03PM -0500, Lior Silberman wrote:
> >
> > You should alias rm to be 'rm -i'. This is possible on almost all shells.
> 
> Wherever I can use GNU-fileutils, I alias rm to 'rm -v'.  This
> prevents one from having to confirm every single delete, while giving
> you feedback on what's going on and simultaneously slowing down the
> delete enought that you can abort a bad one.
> 
Neither idea addresses the simple fact that rm is plain stupid.
Garst