[Off Topic] Re: Linux security

[Daniel Carrera]

Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
> I actually don't use rm -rf all that much, now that I think of it, and
> if I'm working with lots of files without -f, rm -i helps me see I'm
> actually zapping only the chickens I wanted.

Another idea: Switch to zsh.

It feels similar to bash, but it has this feature:

~/dir % rm *
zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/daniel/dir [yn]?


This is useful for when you meant to type 'rm *.old' and instead typed 
'rm * .old'.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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