Dangerous use of 'rm'

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Fri Jul 7 09:26:06 BST 2006


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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:48:19PM +0100, Stephen Allen wrote:
> 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?
>=20
> Aha! - Now that helps a lot.  Ctrl+A is used as 'Home'.

You have that backwards ;)

Ceri
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