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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 2.1
Date: 8 Jun 1995 18:35:41 +0200
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In article <3r7888$280@Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net (that's me) writes:
[ranting deleted]
|> No. I'd rather suggest people refrain from being root if they don't know what
|> they are doing. Otherwise, the painful experiences will only be delayed.
I was just given the hint that a very elegant way of preventing silly people
from doing an 'rm *' is to simply put a file called '-i' in that directory.
Which leads to one of the most frequently asked questions in c.u.w (and other
non-appropriate newsgroups), but that's a different story.
I'd suggest a script that does approximately the following:
#!/bin/sh
find / -type d -exec touch \{\}/-i
;-) Bernard