Re: Please help

[Eric Blake]

According to Voelker, Bernhard on 2/26/2010 6:27 AM:
> 
> This would just be an extension and one could alias rm to use that option.

You can already alias rm to use 'rm -i' to ask always, or even the
less-invasive 'rm -I' to ask only when encountering multiple arguments or
starting recursion.  But some (including myself) will argue that relying
on aliases is already a weak point in your strategy.

Furthermore, GNU rm already refuses to operate on / unless you use
--no-preserve-root.  But that is different than the original problem
reported of using rm in $HOME.

But the point remains - such "helps" can only be enabled via an extension
(since they change the POSIX-specified behavior), and thus do no good if a
user does not request that extension.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden

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