Protection from "rm *"

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Sep29.043909.2577 at smsc.sony.com> dce at smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <853 at agcsun.UUCP> jackm at agcsun.UUCP () writes:
>>I don't like aliasing rm to a shell that copies things to a ".deleted" 
>>directory, so don't tell me about those.
>
>Me neither.  I also don't like aliasing rm to "rm -i".

>From your posts, it sound like you guys want to go back to the old V6 and
possibly PWB shell days where an rm with a "match" character (either * or ?) 
would result in a [glob confirm] msg.  For example:

	% ls
	Makefile
	test
	test.c
	test.o
	% rm * .o
	Makefile test test.c test.o .o
	[glob confirm]

And you would have to type a y to really remove the files.  This would
protect you from the problem.  

When we upgraded to a System III machine, our users had all kinds of problems
when this "feature" went away.


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