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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Message-ID: <812@hadron.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 16:08:28 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <8563@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <125@embossed.UUCP> <672@quintus.UUCP> <1232@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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In article <1232@atari.UUCP> achar@atari.UUCP (Alan Char) writes:
>In article <672@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>|Now, how _do_ you fix "rm *"?  ...
>	 if some shell expansion expanded to more than 5 things, it would
>prompt for confirmation:

What I did, a decade ago, was to have a list of _commands_ which the
shell, after calling glob, would always prompt for after printing out
the entire expanded command line.  The list included "rm" and "rmdir".

No prompting if "glob" was not called.

Perhaps I should go resurrect that code.

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