Author: Craig White Date: Subject: Worth while bash hack (makes history even more valuable)
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 22:25, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Mar, 2003 schw=C3=A4tzte David Mandala so:
>=20
> > # User specific aliases and functions
> > alias rm=3D'rm -i'
> > alias cp=3D'cp -i'
> > alias mv=3D'mv -i'
>=20
> If you must alias these, please alias them to rmi, cpi, and mvi or someth= ing > like that. Getting people who aren't familiar with *NIX to think that rm
> asks before rming things is a major disservice. Sure it's great if all th= ey > ever know is Red Hat or Mandrake, but if they ever use a different dist o= r a > commercial *NIX they are going to hose themselves.
>=20 -----
I KNOW what Hans is going to say here...but this setup is the default in
RedHat. That makes people that learned on RH (like me) ready for danger
on another box.