Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:54:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: drosih@rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, keramida@freebsd.org Cc: missive@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <200410030154.i931sR348272@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002230226.GC1381@gothmog.gr>
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Everyone, If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell alias. That keeps you from accidently doing something. Just thinking that putting extra "smarts" into a utility isn't the typical "UNIXy" way to do this. Let each tool do the one thing it does really well.. 'rm' removes; let it remove. I think, in the old "UNIX Review" magazine (what - almost 15+ years ago now?) There was a couple of examples of this. - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://www.dignus.com
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