Re: [PLUG] toy story2 nearly lost with rm*

[Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>]

I've never understood aliasing rm to rm -i.  I do a lot of work as root and with the exception of individual files I almost always end up running \rm -rf or just unaliasing rm as rm -i is cumbersome for large numbers of files.

The irony of course is it's large numbers of files where you particularly want to be careful with rm -r.  I find I just think long and hard before running rm -rf and never run rm -rf * but instead cd up a directory and run rm -rf directory/* or just rm -rf directory depending on my goal.

Do any of you the are professional sysadmins or just do a ton of system work really use rm aliased to rm -i?  Is there a trick I'm missing?

-morgan


On May 22, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:

> Which is why you should always alias rm to "rn -i" for root. 
> 
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> Doug Stewart
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> On May 22, 2012, at 2:45 PM, drew craig <axcraig@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all, I brought this little story up in our meeting last evening.  The link goes to Linux Today.
>> 
>> pixars toy story2 nearly lost because of a linux command
>> 
>> -- 
>> drew
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