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From: preece%mycroft@gswd-vms.arpa (Scott E. Preece)
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Subject: Re: bm in Less ?
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Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 13:54:04 EST
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  Chris Grevstad:
> By 'bm' I assume you mean the Boyer-Moore grep utility.  When was the
> last time instead of typing 'bm pattern *.c' you typed 'rm pattern *.c'?
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I never have.  Given the locations of the 'r' and 'b' keys, it
doesn't seem like an easy mistake to make ('rm' involves both hands,
'bm' just the right hand).  Of course, I'm a truly paranoid person
and I alias rm to 'rm -i', so it wouldn't do any damage even if I
did make that mistake...

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