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From: ncgus@ndsuvax.UUCP (jim gustafson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Message-ID: <1812@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 01:52:43 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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>In article <672@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>|Now, how _do_ you fix "rm *"?  Suppose you restrict rm to delete exactly
>|one file.  Watch:
>|      foreach F (* .o)
>|          rm $F
>|      end
>|OOPS!  Major bug in foreach!  Better fix that.
>|      [ other examples ]
>|
>|Moral: you can't change _one_ thing.

Maybe I missed something, but doesn't everybody have 'rm' re-defined as
an alias or $HOME/bin/rm?  Something like:

        for fnam in $*
        do
                mv -f $fnam $HOME/.trash
        done

In Korn, I use alias rrm=/bin/rm in my .kshrc so I can do the dirty work.
(the trick is to always use 'rm' ;-).
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Jim Gustafson                   UUCP:     uunet!ndsuvax!ncgus
North Dakota State University   Bitnet:   ncgus@ndsuvax
Fargo, North Dakota 58105       Internet: ncgus@plains.nodak.edu