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From: 6600pete@hub.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: BE CAREFUL WITH rm -r! (was: Re: unerase  (was Re: drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?))
Message-ID: <3266@hub.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:59:53 GMT
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From article <15418@teraida.UUCP>, by jeffy@teraida.UUCP (Jeffrey Youngstrom):
> In article <3249@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:
>>this perspective, is unerasure under UNIX a good thing? No. Just do
>>    alias rm rm -r

> 	Is there a chance you meant to say

> 	alias rm rm -i

>  ???

Certainly. I stand corrected. I never use -i, but I use -r a LOT. Must have
been typing force of habit.

This is an *important* point:

ALL: DO NOT USE rm -r UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT DOES. rm -i IS SAFE,
rm -r CERTAINLY IS NOT! BE VERY CAREFUL WITH rm -r!

Gads. Another rookie UN*X mistake on my part. Just what I needed.
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