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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@××××××.at>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:59:34
Message-Id: 1085993969.8559.2.camel@gimli.at.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 08:10, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > maillog: 29/05/2004-22:31:06(-0700): Mike Lundy types
3 > > On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:10, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
4 > > > How do you propose "rm" to prevent you from deleting stuff in your
5 > > > homedir? Do you mean that it should warn you that the parameter you
6 > > > have given is your homedir, or that it should be changed to warn the
7 > > > user who types "rm -rf *"? The latter is quite impossible to
8 > > > accomplish.
9 > >
10 > > mike@levy:~/blah> rm *
11 > > zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/mike/blah [yn]? y
12 > >
13 > > Zsh does this by default. :)
14 >
15 > The suggestion was to fix "rm", not the shell. This zsh feature looks cute
16 > though.
17
18 With the simple problem, that `rm` doesn't see the *.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>