Worth while bash hack (makes history even more valuable)

David Mandala plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
11 Mar 2003 23:42:47 -0700


Each to his own Hans, I'll teach and you do as you like :)

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 23:24, der.hans wrote:
> Am 11. Mar, 2003 schwätzte 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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