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From: waters@dover.uucp (Mike Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords
Message-ID: <612@dover.uucp>
Date: 20 Dec 88 23:03:20 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <4627@rayssd.ray.com> <8563@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <125@embossed.UUCP> <672@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: waters@dover.UUCP (Mike Waters)
Organization: Motorola CAD Mesa, AZ {dover}
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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:
[non workable fix described]

How about the following in your .login file:

      alias rm 'rm -i'

I have used it (since typing "rm 1 *" instead of "rm 1*")

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