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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: more rm insanity
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Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 15:25:15 EST
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In article <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU> cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub) writes:
>yesterday, i got bit by rm. I was remotely logged in to a system over a network
>and had created a bunch of temp files. to delete them, i naturally typed in
>"rm t*" only the %$*#&^#@ network managed to drop the "t" and you all know what
>happened then. It wasn't too bad because with the archiving we do it was only 2
>hours to get them back. Of course yeaterday's changes got lost and had to be
>redone. The point is that there are two things a command interface could do:
>  1) protect us from our own stupidity (i'm not convinced it should)
>  2) protect us from "extended system" errors like dropping a character
>but i'm not sure how you separate the two.
>-- 
>
>cdash   aka cdash@boulder.colorado.edu    aka ...hao!boulder!cdash
>	aka ...nbires!boulder!cdash       aka  (303) 593-3492

Sounds like you need better error detection on your network software more than
a better "rm".  If the problem is common, try using rm -i, which will prompt
you for each filename.

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