Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Gerry Lawrence wrote: > >> It gets worse. >> >> In newer versions, rm does this behavior by default, without being >> aliased to rm -i. >> > > Please do tell me you are joking? >
Not joking but I should have made the disclaimer that this is a new thing to tcsh. Yes, I know no one in the world still uses tcsh. Well, I do. Oh well. behold: set | grep rmstar rmstar rm * Do you really want to delete all files? [n/y] y touch a b c d e gf unset rmstar rm * echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh > >> In this case, you'll need to unset rmstar to get rm to not annoy you. >> >> You see, they discovered that advanced users were aliasing rm to rm -i >> -- Can't have that! Oh no! >> > > > >
