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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <101@ateng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 17:24:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 17:24:32 1987
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Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <1621@megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>An old version of emacs we used to use created backup files tagged with
>".BAK".   One day I quickly typed "rm *.BAK", or so I thought.  To
>my horror, I looked at the command line and saw, "% rm *>BAK".

I had a similar disaster with an editor that creates backups of the form
",filename".  I missed the comma and typed "rm *".  I now use a (safe!)
alias to do this deletion:

	alias b 'rm -f ,*'
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Chip Salzenberg         "chip@ateng.UUCP"  or  "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
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