On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Pierg75 wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >Um, no, you haven't. If rm is aliased to 'rm -i' in root's environment, > >it should have prompted. Unless he neglected to mention that he > >actually did 'rm -rf' ... > > Somewhere i read that an alias should never be an alias of itself, > something like alias rm='rm -i'
Whatever you read was wrong; a word is not expanded as an alias if it is identical to an alias currently being expanded. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
