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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!werple.mira.net.au!gfm From: gfm@werple.mira.net.au (Graham Menhennitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1 Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:07:09 GMT Organization: werple public-access Internet, Melbourne Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3r83bd$7ms@eplet.mira.net.au> References: <3r6rh4$64v@oz.plymouth.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.mira.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Ted Wisniewski (ted@oz.plymouth.edu) wrote: : I have a suggestion for 2.1, To help protect new users from themselves : place the following aliases in "root"'s .cshrc: : alias rm 'rm -i' : alias cp 'cp -i' : alias mv 'mv -i' : I have helped many people install; and I always give them those aliases : to prevent frustration (on their part and mine). No! Don't do it! In the long term you will cause more frustration than you prevent. The reason: sooner or later you will go to a machine that doesn't have these aliases and, out of habit, type something like "rm *" expecting it to ask you about each file. Bye bye files! If you want to do something along these lines, do "alias rmi 'rm -i'" and then get into the habit of typing "rmi files". Graham