[NBLUG/talk] Neat command line tricks

[Colin Marquardt]

Kevin Bingham <kevin at oreilly.com> writes:

> Does anybody else have similar neat tricks?

Not 100% foolproof, but still:
create a file called "-i" in important directories, and if you do an
'rm *' there by accident, rm will go into interactive mode and
prompt you about deletion.

Cheers,
  Colin

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