Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:00:21 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <16735.13061.592435.41234@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <415E6C4A.1010804@gamersimpact.com> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <20041002083336.GA10355@k7.mavetju> <415E6C4A.1010804@gamersimpact.com>
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In <415E6C4A.1010804@gamersimpact.com>, Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> typed: > Edwin Groothuis wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:19:28AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >I'm not so much worried about 'rm -rf /', but I'm more worried about > >"rm -rf *" in my home directory. It happened once because I was too > >happy switching directories before realising what I was doing in > >the wrong directory. > If you use tcsh for your shell add: > > set rmstar > > to your .cshrc file. Then anytime you use '*' as an argument to rm it > will ask you if you are sure you want to do that. zsh does this by default as well. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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