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From: kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
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Date: 22 Nov 88 02:56:42 GMT
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In article <6518@csli.STANFORD.EDU> wagner@arisia.xerox.com (Juergen Wagner) writes:
>In article <717@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>>In article <1812@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncgus@ndsuvax.UUCP (jim gustafson) writes:

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>>For example, I very much like the "-F" option in ls, but it would be
>>incredibly stupid to "alias ls 'ls -F'".  Instead I "alias lf 'ls -AF'"

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>                                                    ... I agree that aliasing
>"ls" to "ls -F" or similar stuff would be stupid...


I may well be incredibly stupid.  I suspect, however, there is far more
convincing evidence for that proposition than the fact that
I alias ls to ls -F.

I guess I'm a little disturbed at how easily we call others stupid
for using harmless practices which differ from our own.
If I ever run into problems because of my alias, I'll change it.
So far I've survived.

Paul Kirkaas
kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu