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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Authored by: gschueler on May 12, '04 10:36:06PM

that won't prevent 'rm -rf ~'. If you are in your home directory and do 'rm -rf *' it will prevent you from cooking your own goose. It works because the glob-expansion of * just turns into a list of all the files in the directory. the '-i' file comes first and looks like a command line switch.
However 'rm -rf ~' doesn't do glob-expansion and thus the '-i' file won't help you.



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