Worth while bash hack (makes history even more valuable)

der.hans plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:24:04 -0700 (MST)


Am 11. Mar, 2003 schw=E4tzte David Mandala so:

> I disagree with you there Hans. I teach them about the alias so they
> know what is going on. If they man rmi or cpi they will not find it so
> that is a much worse idea then just a bit of explanation.

No it doesn't. They will learn about rm, but they won't accidentally be
using it.

"rm *" in a directory and expecting to be able to say yes or no to every
file will not work. "ksh: rmi: command not found" is easier to deal with
than lost data.

ciao,

der.hans
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