David E. Ross wrote:
... I was used to setting alias rm='rm -i' but I was working at a location other than my usual. I entered rm * Quickly realizing what I had done, I then entered CTRL-C But it was too late. I didn't lose all my files, but I lost too many. Fortunately, all accounts were backed-up daily by the system administrators.When I got a shell account on my ISP's Web server in my own address space, one of the first things I did was alias rm='rm -i' I also did the same for cp and mv.
I don't think you learned the right lesson. Instead of modifying "rm" to be "rm -i" , you probably should have created a new command, say, "delfile" or whatever. That way, if you're working somewhere other than your usual place and forget and type your usual command to delete with confirmation, you're much more likely to have nothing harmful happen (e.g., just "bash: delfile: command not found) rather than deleting more files than you might have meant. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
