> > Oh, well, that's one for the collective memory . . . and looking
> > at the man page for strings doesn't provide any hint that there
> > is a way to change what it considers a character. I suppose
> > I should have written a script to get all 7 bit ascii characters . . .
> Try the command "
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > "Stupid is as stupid does"
| Well, I work with a lot of handicapped people (aren't we all?) and have
| become very aware of how a small deficit in hand-eye coordination or
| visual acuity can lead to disaster. Unix was not designed with these
| pe
garst gabbed,
> > | Neither idea addresses the simple fact that rm is plain stupid.
lars lamented,
> > "Stupid is as stupid does"
> > Lgb
> Well, I work with a lot of handicapped people (aren't we all?) and have
> become very aware of how a small deficit in hand-eye coordination or
> v
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" wrote:
>
> "Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | 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 u
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:20:08AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Lior Silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | > Under unix-like OS, the * is expanded by the shell, not by the rm command,
> | > so the rm command never sees the *. You'd have to hack the shell, not the
> | > rm command, a
"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| 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
|
Lior Silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > Under unix-like OS, the * is expanded by the shell, not by the rm command,
| > so the rm command never sees the *. You'd have to hack the shell, not the
| > rm command, and the question becomes, how do you do that consistently? Do
| > you specialca
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, wh
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'
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote:
> > >
> > > Several months ago, in one of those tragic typing accidents, I
> > > inserted a space into "rm -r *~" on my laptop. I ceased using it
> > Can't help you,
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote:
> >
> > Several months ago, in one of those tragic typing accidents, I
> > inserted a space into "rm -r *~" on my laptop. I ceased using it
> Can't help you, but this is an obvious stupidity in rm.
> rm -r [asterisk] ~ mak
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote:
>
> Several months ago, in one of those tragic typing accidents, I
> inserted a space into "rm -r *~" on my laptop. I ceased using it
Can't help you, but this is an obvious stupidity in rm.
rm -r [asterisk] ~ makes no sense. I think rm should be modified to
strip blan
Several months ago, in one of those tragic typing accidents, I
inserted a space into "rm -r *~" on my laptop. I ceased using it
immediately, and eventually used dd and strings to strip
the hard drive, hoping to recover a half-written paper.
Nothing *should* have been written to the hard disk
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