Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Chris Howells]

On Monday 04 October 2004 09:08, Mark Murray wrote:
> Yeah.
>
> $ alias rm="rm -i"
>
> and you get the annoying  "confirm all deletes" behaviour.

Remember that -r over-rides -i, so the warning does not appear:

bash-2.05b$ mkdir blah
bash-2.05b$ rm -irf blah
bash-2.05b$ mkdir blah
bash-2.05b$ rm -if blah
rm: blah: is a directory
bash-2.05b$ rm -ir blah
remove blah? y
bash-2.05b$

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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