Re: Bonehead Move

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linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:25:41 -0500

Tod <tod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thus I ended up doing rm -fr ./ mydir.  Goodbye home
dir.
Create a file named -i in your home directory to prevent
this from happening in the future.

How does this prevent that happening?


Because rm takes the -i file as an option.


-i, --interactive
              prompt before any removal


For example:

mkdir ~/TEST
cd ~/TEST
touch -- -i
touch test
touch test2
touch test3
rm -fr *


And see what happens. :-)


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