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Re: Avoid asterisk expansion when it selects "everything"


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Avoid asterisk expansion when it selects "everything"
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:23:10 +0200
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> alternative idea: alias your rm/mv/etc... commands if you're worried
> about them.  it's not uncommon to do in ~/.bashrc or wherever:
>       alias rm='rm -i'

That's the worst advice you can give.  If you lose the alias for
whatever reason you get silent failure.

Andreas.

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