[olug] Unix Tip: OOPS.. RM STAR

Brian Wiese bwiese at cotse.com
Fri Apr 25 04:13:54 UTC 2003


On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:30:40 -0500 (CDT)
Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:

|On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, CM Miller wrote:
|
|> or just create an alias
|
|Indeed. Edit /etc/skel/.bashrc, /etc/bashrc or what have you to include
|the following line:
|
|alias rm='rm -i'
|
|Personally, I remove this alias on any system I use because I find it 
|annoying, but it's a risk I'm willing to take. This is yet another tip
|which may be dangerous to newbies.
|
|So much for guru status.

when youre logged in and find it annoying... "unalias rm"

peace

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