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From: trn@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
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Date: 21 Nov 88 20:46:28 GMT
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In article <1067@entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
>This is all very easy.  If you don't like rm(1) put
>
>  alias foo rm -i
>
>in your .cshrc...

A half-measure.  If you *really* don't like rm(1), put

	alias rm "rm -i"

in your .cshrc file.  That way, if you want to use rm without the -i switch,
you have to do a little extra work (/bin/rm).  By the same token,

	alias cp "cp -i"

can protect you from yourself with file copying.

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