On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Brett Parker wrote: > *sigh* over generalisation, linux is a *kernel*, it is not the operating > system. And certainly I have not got any of the GNU/Linux boxes here > configured to alias rm to rm -i. It's something that RedHat and many > derivitives do for you so that you can shoot yourself in the foot more > easily on other distributions that don't set that inane alias. It's not > set in a default Debian install.
One person's inane alias is another person's useful alias. These things are very subjective. I *do* set rm -i. But I set it in my .bash_profile, which I copy to every account that I use regularly. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
