Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> writes: > One benefit is: you don't have to use "-f" for a non-dangerous > senario. That seems stupid, but for the plain "rm" command, the > "-rf" is hardcoded in the fingers of many unix users, and I know > several people having lost data by typing it a bit too mechanically > (with a typo behind, like forgetting the "*" in "*~" ;-). Just a few days ago, I used rm -rf * in a temporary directory. I would now advise people against doing that without an absolute path. The problem was that at some later point of time, some history search/key fsckup popped that line back into the shell and executed it. At that time, in my home directory. This was definitely annoying, even though the files and directories .* (and thus most configuration data) were spared. > I'll try writting patch for that if people agree that this is saner > that the current behavior. Sounds like it. -- David Kastrup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
