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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] rm tragedies: was how to clean the "/tmp" dir
From:       Georgi Georgiev <chutz () gg3 ! net>
Date:       2004-05-31 9:29:51
Message-ID: 20040531092951.GB7614 () lion ! gg3 ! net
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maillog: 31/05/2004-10:59:29(+0200): Bernd Petrovitsch types
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 08:10, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > maillog: 29/05/2004-22:31:06(-0700): Mike Lundy types
> > > On Saturday 29 May 2004 20:10, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > > > How do you propose "rm" to prevent you from deleting stuff in your
> > > > homedir? Do you mean that it should warn you that the parameter you
> > > > have given is your homedir, or that it should be changed to warn the
> > > > user who types "rm -rf *"? The latter is quite impossible to
> > > > accomplish.
> > > 
> > > mike@levy:~/blah> rm *
> > > zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/mike/blah [yn]? y
> > > 
> > > Zsh does this by default. :)
> > 
> > The suggestion was to fix "rm", not the shell. This zsh feature looks cute
> > though.
> 
> With the simple problem, that `rm` doesn't see the *.

Which is exactly why I said that it is impossible in the first place.

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