Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:49:09 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <200410062049.10154.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <200410060131.i961V0pw047974@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <20041005103123.C46325@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <200410060131.i961V0pw047974@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:31, Matthew Dillon wrote: The university I used to work for had something like it and it got 99% of the cases > Yow. 78 messages and counting. Er, 79 now. I'll bet poor Giorgos > wishes he never started this thread! Get ready..... get set.... DIVE! > > A good friend of mine has, for at least the last two decades, used > something along the lines of: > > if ( $?prompt ) then > alias rm 'mv \!* $HOME/misc/trash' > endif > > However, it seems that the correct solution is to create a new option, > -I, which puts rm into 'idiot user mode' and has all the desired > confirmation effects listed in this thread and none of the undesired > effects such as -i returns. Then if anyone wants to use it they > can just create an alias similar to the above for -I and poof, problem > solved. It's fairly easy to detect '*' and ask for confirmation, > and also easy to ask for a single confirmation on a directory (not > ask again for any recursion). > > Then you guys can argue over whether the alias should appear in the > system-wide default csh.cshrc and friends, rather then argue over > the destruction of rm's basic nature. I will only point out that 'rm' > is used fairly universally in scripts and there are obviously things > other then '/' that you would want to ask confirmation for that just > as obviously cannot be made default operation for rm. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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