On Friday 20 October 2006 04:11, Philip Webb wrote: > When using 'rm -f' (with or without '-r') the iron rule is > > (1) goto the dir which contains the items to be removed > (2) 'pwd' > (3) 'ls <whatever>' > (4) if <whatever> is not '*', recall that line with Up-arrow, > backspace over 'ls' & replace with 'rm -f' > (5) sit on hands for >= 10 sec while examining the results of (2 > 3 4)
A 10 second minimum? Gee, you're brave! :-) On that note, one enhancement I'd like to see to rm is a --pretend option. -i isn't the same thing, I'd like rm to tell me "I'm about to delete the following: ... " Anyone know of a patch that provides this? alan -- [email protected] mailing list
