Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 11:47:06 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /root:"chmod 600 .*" nothing work now Message-ID: <19980617114706.D28994@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616081408.24104A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>; from Dan Busarow on Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 08:21:35AM -0700 References: <19980616120752.H26576@cityip.co.za> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980616081408.24104A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 at 08:21 SAT, Dan Busarow wrote:
>
> I always try ls -l pattern before doing anything potentially dangerous
> that relyies on shell expansion. Knowing for certain what the expansion
> will be can be comforting when issuing an rm -r :)
I went back to look at Unix Power Tools, where I remember seeing the caveat
about two character dotfiles. I found this little script in there. Cut it
out, call it (say) "del", and put it somewhere in your $PATH. I think it's
quite cute. ;-)
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#!/bin/sh
case $# in
0) echo "`basename $0`: you didn't say which file(s) to delete"; exit 1;;
[123]) /bin/rm -i "$@" ;;
*) echo "$*"
echo do you want to delete these files\?
read a
case "$a" in
[yY]*) /bin/rm "$@" ;;
esac
;;
esac
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-- V
Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
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