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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 at 08:21 SAT, Dan Busarow wrote:
> 
> I always try ls -l pattern before doing anything potentially dangerous
> that relyies on shell expansion.  Knowing for certain what the expansion
> will be can be comforting when issuing an rm -r :)

I went back to look at Unix Power Tools, where I remember seeing the caveat
about two character dotfiles.  I found this little script in there.  Cut it
out, call it (say) "del", and put it somewhere in your $PATH.  I think it's
quite cute.  ;-)

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#!/bin/sh

case $# in
0)      echo "`basename $0`: you didn't say which file(s) to delete"; exit 1;;
[123])  /bin/rm -i "$@" ;;
*)      echo "$*"
        echo do you want to delete these files\?
        read a
        case "$a" in
        [yY]*)  /bin/rm "$@" ;;
        esac
        ;;
esac
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-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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