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. :-)
