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VERY bad idea
Authored by: gnuadam on Oct 15, '02 09:56:35AM

Uh, even if you alias rm -i with rm, if you type rm -fr /*, you'll still toast your machine. The "-f" flag (which forces the delete to occur without any prompting) seems to override the "-i" flag (which asks the user to confirm deletion). I typed rm -ifr <file>, and it deleted without prompting.



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