From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 23 14:53:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C4D37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a210.otenet.gr [212.205.215.210]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5NLrQx11185; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:53:26 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f5NLrHh05845; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:53:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:53:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Darn DOS habits Message-ID: <20010624005316.A5711@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010621004307.A295@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621004307.A295@whizkidtech.net>; from adam@whizkidtech.net on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:43:07AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:43:07AM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > In other words, when I entered > > cp /d/path/serv*.eps > > the shell changed it to: > > cp /d/path/serv.eps /d/path/serv2/eps > > That, unfortunately, is a perfectly legitimate way of using the > cp command. Thats exactly why I have in my /etc/csh.cshrc the following aliases: alias cp '/bin/cp -i \!*' alias mv '/bin/mv -i \!*' alias rm '/bin/rm -i \!*' That `interactive' flag is a life saver some times :-) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message