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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Message-ID: <17081@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 10:35:33 GMT
References: <672@quintus.UUCP> <1232@atari.UUCP> <794@tank.uchicago.edu>
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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In-reply-to: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)

In article <794@tank.uchicago.edu>, matt@oddjob (Matt Crawford) writes:
>In article <1232@atari.UUCP>, achar@atari (Alan Char) writes:
>) For example, I would REALLY appreciate in csh a variable
>) 	set expandcheck=5
>) So that if some shell expansion expanded to more than 5 things, it would
>) prompt for confirmation.  Comments on this idea?

>This sounds much, MUCH better than changing any other system program in
>any way.

And while whosoever is at it, how about a histnoclobber variable?  The
only time I've regretted having noclobber unset was the time that I had
an unintended invocation of a clobbering command via history.

Any other goodies like this for the merely mildly clumsy/paranoid?

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720