Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au> writes: > William Hopkins wrote: >> You should be able to trust rm, at least. Just add -i if you're paranoid. > > And if you are more paranoid, fully path rm to ensure no alias is > changing anything.
There are at least three things involved: rm, the shell and the user. If the shell would do some unexpected extensions, I might get unexpected results: that's the reason why the file name is defined in the program and not handed over on the commandline. Both the shell and rm are probably fine and work as they are supposed to. The user may easily overlook something. It wasn't something I could have tried out in advance very well, and writing the program took only a few minutes. Better save than sorry ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762ntywxu....@yun.yagibdah.de