From: utzoo!utcstvax!geoff
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: recovering lost files
Article-I.D.: utcstvax.118
Posted: Mon May 31 00:51:14 1982
Received: Mon May 31 07:30:16 1982
References: floyd.242

Enough already about rm! This has been endlessly discussed in the
Datamation article and its replies. The obvious solution is to have an
environment variable (say, CAUTIOUS) to select alternate behaviour such
as asking for confirmation.

Geoff Collyer, U. of Toronto Computing Services