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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?
Message-ID: <2707@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:27:46 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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 >...is unerasure under UNIX a good thing? No. Just do
 >
 >    alias rm rm -r
 >
 >and hope for the best.

A bit of a desperate hope, since the "-r" flag tells "rm" to fully
remove any subdirectories it finds ("r" for "recursive"); it sure
doesn't make it any *less* likely that you'll accidentally blow files
away, and probably makes it *more* likely.  Did you perhaps mean
"alias rm rm -i" ("i" for "interactive"), so that it'll ask you before
removing anything?