On Wednesday 12 May 2004 17:40, 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'
I'm fairly certain that's not the case, because I do it all the time! Examples from by ~/.bashrc: alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias rm='rm -vi' alias cp='cp -vi' alias mv='mv -vi' alias cal='cal -3m' # week starts on Monday and I'm sure I got this idea from some reputable Unix books. This way rm always asks *except* when you use -f. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
