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Re: The rm command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Fri Nov 29 06:41:16 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 29 Nov 1996 11:40:06 GMT
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In article <57kg5s$t0k@halon.vggas.com>, stark@hydor.jpl.nasa.gov says...
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>I personally think that having rm aliased to 'rm -i' is a great thing,
...until the day when you depend on it and use it on a system where there is no
such alias. There's no substitute for care. That "#" sign means "THINK
TWICE!".
Otoh, I suspect that the primary intent behind this is to prevent
newbies having nasty accidents. Red Hat is taking care of its new users in a
sense, by doing this.
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