Cameron Simpson wrote: > | I alomst hate to admit it but the rm bug bit me for the second > | time in my life over the weekend. The first time was back, oh, late '94 I > | think. But everyone gets bit by this at least once in their *NIX career. > > If you use a zsh instead of a bash you can get it to ask when it sees > "rm *" like commands. The RM_STAR_SILENT and RM_STAR_WAIT options. Well, it would have helped if I hadn't re-aliased rm back from "rm -i". > | Oh well, guess it was my turn to play "crusty old phart who does > | stupid newbie move" today. :-) > > The core skill I learnt as a sysadmin was not "don't do rm *" but "pause > and THINK before pressing return". I also learned that some 25 or so years ago. The trouble is that as I get older the mind tends to forget what it is... Uhm... What were we talking about? -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk
