Worth while bash hack (makes history even more valuable)

[Craig White]

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
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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.

Craig