RE: OT: Quick (?) UNIX Question

From: Srinivasan Vasan <Vasan.Srinivasan_at_churchill.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:20:28 +0100
Message-ID: <4661DD1EF5C4EF4B9D2BCE3A3E52EF3302765862@brcexm04.churchill.com>

Unless someone also creates a file called '--'. I prefer alias to avoid accidental deletes.

Cheers,

Vasan.

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From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com] Sent: 16 April 2004 19:27
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: OT: Quick (?) UNIX Question

There is a valid use for creating a similar file. Create a file '-i' in a directory, and it will force rm to go into interactive
mode should someone type 'rm -rf *'

Jared

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