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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Protection from "rm *"
Message-ID: <1034@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 90 14:04:49 GMT
References: <853@agcsun.UUCP> <1986@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
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Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <1986@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  You can stop after saying "I don't like aliasing rm" as far as I'm
>concerned. I create a file called "-i" which comes first in those
>firectories where I think I might make this mistake often. That force
>interractive mode, and I can break if I didn't mean it.

Sounds like a neat idea. So I built a directory I could trash and tried it.

Now however, I can't seem to figure how to get rid of the -i.  I have tried
all variations of quotes, backslashes, wildcards.

I know it's something simple, but I just can't seem to think of what it
would be this time.


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