Kevin Kofler wrote:
Charles Curley <charlescurley <at> charlescurley.com> writes:
The core skill I learnt as a sysadmin was not "don't do rm *" but "pause
and THINK before pressing return".
Or run "ls ..." first, then uparrow and replace the ls with the rm.
Or use a graphical file manager. Krusader not only lets you see what you're
deleting while you're selecting it, it also prompts you for confirmation,
presenting the list of the files and/or directories you're deleting again (i.e.
it implicitly does the ls).
Kevin Kofler
Graphical file manager? That isn't the *nix way of doing things. :)
And the -f in the rm command it to stop the "Confirm delete?" questions.
My rm is set to confirm all deletes using alias.
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Robin Laing
