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From: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: suggest solutions for "rm *"
Message-ID: <11074@felix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 15:49:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 29 15:49:14 1987
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Keywords: human factors, interfaces, shells

In article <5715@j.cc.purdue.edu> ksb@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Kevin Braunsdorf) writes:
>Can anyone suggest a solution to the novice user's classic error message:
>
>	% rm * .o
>	rm: .o nonexistent
>	% exit

% alias rm delete

"Delete" is a program which renames the file instead of
unlinking it.  Delete simply prepends ".," so that the file
doesn't show up when the user runs "ls".  Then you run a
skulker at night to clean up the deleted files.

	-- Art Z.
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