OT: the rm bug hit me again

[Robin Laing]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
>> On 10/25/06, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Graphical file manager?  That isn't the *nix way of doing things.  :)
>>>
>>> And the -f in the rm command it to stop the "Confirm delete?" questions.
>>>    My rm is set to confirm all deletes using alias.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>
>>
>>
>> How exactly did you do this? I got bit by this bug once in my Linux
>> life, would prefer it never happens again.
>>
> 
> alias rm='rm -i'
> 
> Mike

And put it in your .bashrc file so it is there all the time.
This is what I have in mine.  I use the --backup=t command to make 
copies of files instead of overwriting the files.  This way I don't 
accidently destroy a file when one is a duplicate name of another.

~/.bashrc~:alias rm='rm -i'
~/.bashrc~:alias cp='cp -i --backup=t'
~/.bashrc~:alias mv='mv -i --backup=t'
~/.bashrc~:alias mp='mplayer'


Of course if you use the -f in with the rm command, you are toasted 
anyways as the interactive response is overridden.

-- 
Robin Laing