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From: sunil@hpcllmv.HP.COM (Sunil Bhargava)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: suggest solutions for "rm *"
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Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 18:44:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 18:44:37 1987
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Have a file by the name of -i in your directory. This will be the first
file that will be passed to "rm" in case of an "rm *". "rm" will interpret
this as the -i option and hence query before removal. This will not
effect any other cases.

You could alias "mkdir" to a command that will automatically insert the
-i file when a directory en cs. O(non