Defensive typing
I've long been in the habit of entering dangerous commands partially in reverse, so in the case of theO/Ps one I've have done:
'-rf /*.old*'
then gone back top the start of the line and entered the 'rm' bit.
I've long been in the habit of entering dangerous commands partially in reverse, so in the case of theO/Ps one I've have done:
'-rf /*.old*'
then gone back top the start of the line and entered the 'rm' bit.