"Garst R. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| John Weiss wrote:
| > 
| > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:46:03PM -0500, Lior Silberman wrote:
| > >
| > > You should alias rm to be 'rm -i'. This is possible on almost all shells.
| > 
| > Wherever I can use GNU-fileutils, I alias rm to 'rm -v'.  This
| > prevents one from having to confirm every single delete, while giving
| > you feedback on what's going on and simultaneously slowing down the
| > delete enought that you can abort a bad one.
| > 
| Neither idea addresses the simple fact that rm is plain stupid.

"Stupid is as stupid does"

        Lgb







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