On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:14:57AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Of course, knowing that I do such things on occasion, I have aliased > 'rm' to 'rm -i', so it will ask unless I pass '-f' along.
Speaking from experience, this kind of behavior makes people use "rm -f" all the time, which means that you won't get a warning when you _really_ want it (for instance, a read-only file). Security by dialog boxes: It's not the way to go. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]