drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Dec 13 06:27:46 AEST 1989


 >...is unerasure under UNIX a good thing? No. Just do
 >
 >    alias rm rm -r
 >
 >and hope for the best.

A bit of a desperate hope, since the "-r" flag tells "rm" to fully
remove any subdirectories it finds ("r" for "recursive"); it sure
doesn't make it any *less* likely that you'll accidentally blow files
away, and probably makes it *more* likely.  Did you perhaps mean
"alias rm rm -i" ("i" for "interactive"), so that it'll ask you before
removing anything?



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