Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir

[Mike Lundy]

On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:10, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> How do you propose "rm" to prevent you from deleting stuff in your
> homedir? Do you mean that it should warn you that the parameter you
> have given is your homedir, or that it should be changed to warn the
> user who types "rm -rf *"? The latter is quite impossible to
> accomplish.

mike@levy:~/blah> rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/mike/blah [yn]? y

Zsh does this by default. :)


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