Worm/Passwords

Mike Waters waters at dover.uucp
Wed Dec 21 09:03:20 AEST 1988


In article <672 at quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>
>Now, how _do_ you fix "rm *"?  Suppose you restrict rm to delete exactly
>one file.  Watch:
[non workable fix described]

How about the following in your .login file:

      alias rm 'rm -i'

I have used it (since typing "rm 1 *" instead of "rm 1*")

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