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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Protection from "rm *"
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:27:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jackm@agcsun.UUCP's message of 28 Sep 90 19:18:20 GMT
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I'm not sure I like it, but tcsh v5.18 has a feature where if you type `rm
*' it will ask for confirmation. This feature needs to be added at compile
time.

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, CA    {uunet,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!brister