Protection from "rm *"
Bill Vermillion
bill at bilver.UUCP
Tue Oct 2 00:04:49 AEST 1990
In article <1986 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> You can stop after saying "I don't like aliasing rm" as far as I'm
>concerned. I create a file called "-i" which comes first in those
>firectories where I think I might make this mistake often. That force
>interractive mode, and I can break if I didn't mean it.
Sounds like a neat idea. So I built a directory I could trash and tried it.
Now however, I can't seem to figure how to get rid of the -i. I have tried
all variations of quotes, backslashes, wildcards.
I know it's something simple, but I just can't seem to think of what it
would be this time.
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