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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)
Message-ID: <1698@solo3.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 24 Nov 88 12:23:06 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <8563@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <125@embossed.UUCP> <672@quintus.UUCP> <1232@atari.UUCP> <812@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <812@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
\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".

It's quite unnecessary to include "rmdir".
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