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Re: Classic

Ideas? Yes. Just don't depend on the alias rm='rm -i'. If you can't use rm safely, you should probably step away from the keyboard altogether.

What happens when you run rm as a different user or on a different system, that doesn't have the alias crutch?

I'll bet you even do "yes | rm *" to remove lots of files without having to ack each one, don't you?

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