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From: hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 00:00:57 EST
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In article <1325@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
> just create a file called "-i" in your directory that you want protected!
> then "rm *" expands to "rm -i file1 file2 file3 ..."
> (unless you have other files beginning with weird characters)

What about when you have a file called '-a' in your directory as well !
Seems to me that appropriate use of write protections is a better solution.
Failing that, how about an alias

% alias rm 'rm -i'

Neil/.