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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Summary: Creeping featurism considered harmful.
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Date: 17 Nov 88 04:30:12 GMT
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Creeping featurism considered harmful.  Leave it alone.

This is all very easy.  If you don't like rm(1) put

  alias foo rm -i

in your .cshrc or put a shell script foo in ~/bin

  rm -i $*

and use foo to remove files.