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Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
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On 2004-10-02 at 10:19:28 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
> rm(1) of FreeBSD:

Of course, your work is commendable, but isn't is much simpler to just
not type commands like that?  I mean, "rm -rf /etc" or "rm -rf /bin"
are just as bad, but do you really want to be checking for all
possible `bad' deletions?  That way, we'll start to look like some
software from Redmond... :)

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