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From: ustel@well.UUCP (Mark Hargrove)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
Message-ID: <4472@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 00:12:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 00:12:28 1987
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> Xref: well comp.cog-eng:280 comp.unix.xenix:1083 comp.unix.wizards:5329
> 
> In article <1402@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
> [We're talking about "rm *".  Guess why I have a csh alias for rm that
>  always asks about every file.  When I'm absolutely sure that I want to
>  delete a number of files and I don't want to answer questions, I pipe
>  the whole command off to sh.]

In a similar vein, we have a shell function defined in /etc/profile
for our Bourne Shell users:

rm(){
	if [ ! -d /usr/tmp/$LOGNAME ] ; then
		mkdir /usr/tmp/$LOGNAME
	fi
	mv $* /usr/tmp/$LOGNAME
}

Then we have /usr/lbin/reallyrm linked to /bin/rm for when
you really mean it.

A once a week cron script cleans out /usr/tmp right AFTER a backup.

This DOESN'T fix the ol' slip of the fingers that results in
reallyrm * .o  <---you only see the space AFTER you hit return ;-)
but it HAS saved the day enough times to make it worth the 10 minutes
it took to implement.

Mark Hargrove
U.S. TeleCenters
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