Yes, it should be an opt-in but -i would annoy me to death. Also to
clarify -I still lets you do stupid things but it gives you a second to
pause before you do something stupid.
Quoting Joe Hourcle <onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov>:
On Oct 28, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Alex Berry wrote:
And that is why alias rm='rm -I' was invented.
Do not *ever* set this to be a default for new users.
During my undergrad, I worked at helpdesk for the group that managed
the computer labs, the general use unix & cms systems (not content
management system ... an IBM mainframe ... one of the last
bitnet-to-internet gateways).
The engineering school set up a bunch of default aliases for their
systems... including "rm='rm -i'".
This meant that when people came to *our* servers ... they'd decide
to interactively clean out their home directory by typing:
rm *
... and then wonder why it didn't prompt them.
... and then come to the computer lab to complain.
... and then complain some more when we wouldn't immediately restore
their files for them. (our policy was technically disaster recovery
only, but it was effectively disaster recovery, upper level
management, or members of the faculty senate ... because restores
from tape really, really sucked.)
-Joe
