Dangerous use of 'rm'
Stephen Allen
freebsduk at rowyerboat.com
Thu Jul 6 23:48:19 BST 2006
James O'Gorman wrote:
> So alias rm to rm -i and then when you're ready to add the -rf, hit
> up, Ctrl-A and then right arrow three times to type -rf. Surely this
> isn't too much effort to ensure the safety of your files?
Aha! - Now that helps a lot. Ctrl+A is used as 'Home'. I've always
been struggling (and still am) with getting all the keymap stuff to work
in FreeBSD properly (by properly, I mean Home/End/Del/Backspace stuff).
Ctrl+A will do while I work on the keymaps.
Thanks James,
Steve :)
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