Re: lynx-dev Jeez now I've started a non-Lynx discussion

[Chuck Martin]

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:57:07PM -0700, David Combs wrote:
> 
> Myself, when I want to remove a whole bunch of files,
> instead of "rm *.foo foo.* `cat t.nam`" etc,
> and getting it into the history-list (csh) where an
> inadvertent "!?rm" could really screw me, I do:
> 
>   mv (all that stuff above) todelete/todelete/todelete
> 
>    (three deep, so a .* doesn't get a ".." that can hurt :-(  )
> 
> and then cd there, ls -sF, look at that for a while,
> and THEN "sh", pwd, ls -lsAt (just to make sure), and
> FINALLY rm *.
> 
> "rm" is really scary, at least to me.

It sounds like you got bit sometime in the past.  If I got bit by rm,
I might change the way I do things, but the above seems like an awful
lot of work.

Chuck