That's still too dangerous.  What I do is first chown the folder to nobody
user.  Then sudo to nobody.
Then I type out the full path to the folder, and use the arrow keys to move
to the beginning of the line.  Then I finally type rm - rf and hit enter

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 12:16 PM Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>
wrote:

> On 8/20/18 8:26 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> > Or, simply, rm -rf DIR, assuming you want to remove ‘DIR as well as
> > anything in it (as I thought he said).
>
> I always make it a point to include ./ so that I don't accidentally
> delete something on root (even though rm -rf is supposed to prevent that.
>
> $ rm -rf ./DIR
>
> Including ./ in your path basically tells your system to use your
> current working directory
>
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