Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:39:56 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <200410031939.56433.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <20041003222523.J9166@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com> <20041003.113739.95785967.imp@bsdimp.com> <20041003222523.J9166@woozle.rinet.ru>
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A simple and pragmatic solution is to use alias in what ever shell you are using e.g. alias rm to rm -i. There used to be a simple "delete" command or script that basically moved all files into a ".deleted" directory insted of actually deleting the files - From a practical point of view it does the trick because it forces anybody to use the escaped version if they really want to delete the files.
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