On 9 April 2014 08:14, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote: >>> dangerous and surprising behavior to put into a terminal shell. For >>> example, `rm f` should _never_ automatically invoke `rm f*`. >>> >>> -Kevin
Kevin's example was that he has previously deleted all files starting with an f (which I've done on many occasions) and is now attempting to remove a single file called f (which I've done on many occasions), but your suggestion would cause fish to delete all files starting with an f again - I think that perfectly illustrates why automatically accepting suggestions in the shell is a really *really* bad idea. >> hello, >> i don't think you have that one either. >> >> rm -rf /<Enter> >> >> will execute 'rm /' in any shell anyway. Whether intentional or not, his example was not that he has previously attempted to recursively remove /, and your argument relies on the system's rm command being the GNU version and defaulting to --preserve-root, which is not always the case, and is only a relatively new feature of GNU coreutils anyway. -Ian -- http://darkstarshout.blogspot.com http://github.com/DarkStarSword http://sites.google.com/site/DarkStarJunkSpace -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
