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Re: The rm command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anthony)
Fri Nov 29 02:30:07 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 07:28:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, BadgerNet wrote:
>
> > try "rm -rf" ....be careful.
>
> No. This is incorrect. Instead of unaliasing rm, he could do 'rm -f'.
> If he wants to not be prompted for confirmation, and recursively remove
> directories, he could do 'rm -rf'. RTFM.
>
> Dave
>
>
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> echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sb20293A2058554E494Csnlbxq'|dc
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>
The ideal solution seems to be to get "safedelete" and alias rm to that.
Anthony
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