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From: cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Protection from "rm *"
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.065005.11001@icc.com>
Date: 30 Sep 90 06:50:05 GMT
References: <853@agcsun.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Intercomputer Communications Corp., Cincinnati, OH
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In article <853@agcsun.UUCP> jackm@agcsun.UUCP () writes:
>I happened on an interesting way to protect against those accidental "rm *"'s
>
>To expand on this a bit, you could
>
>	alias mkdir '/bin/mkdir \!^; touch \!^/#; chmod 0 \!^/#'
>
>So - anyone seen this before? See any drawbacks?
>
>-- 
>"How am I typing?  Call 1-303-279-1300"     Jack C. Morrison
>Ampex Video Systems    581 Conference Place, Golden CO 80401

How about

touch -- -NO-WAY!
giving the result:

rm: illegal option -- N
rm: illegal option -- O
rm: illegal option -- -
rm: illegal option -- W
rm: illegal option -- A
rm: illegal option -- Y
rm: illegal option -- !
usage: rm [-fir] file ...


cbp
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