Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Granted, but given the potential for destruction from that command, one
would think that the command invoked with those switches would caution
the human when invoked on "/" or even a first level directory before
poceeding.
No. A thousand times, no.
If you execute the command enough that it matters, you will eventually
get into the habit of automatically nailing "yes" to the prompt. I have
seen this happen with people who alias rm to "rm -i". It doesn't work.
Now, some people aliased "rm" to "mv $1 ~/.Garbage". That wasn't bad.
It screws up rm in some subtle ways, but it's not bad for beginners.
To be able to do useful stuff on a system, you also have to have the
capability of screwing it up royally.
-a
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