Hi, That IS a good solution Civileme; however, most of the time when I am going to delete a full directory, I do the following: ls /dir and if it IS in fact what I want to delete, I then type rm -Rf ESC+_ (that is escape and underscore, to insert that last argument from the last command) which prevents ANY possible typo/cat-from-hell incident. David Charles On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2001 14:56, Felix Miata wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I know it saves a keystroke, and that is PRECISELY the reason I use -R > > > instead of -r; as I explained in my posting, using "rm -Rf /dir" is NOT > > > something to be taken lightly, and that is why I got into the habit of > > > -R, so that I HAD to do one extra keystroke, and therefore have one more > > > chance to think of what I am doing and change my mind. > > > > Anyone interested in saving keystrokes can save a whole lot more by > > typing these first thing upon login: > > > > mc > > > > Once you do that, you find the dir you think you want to remove and hit > > enter. Now you can see whether what's in there is what you really do > > want to rm. Hit enter again, then F8, confirm, and it's gone. > > > Heeheehee > > Yep > decide you are going to type > > rm -rf /.somercd/messages/ > > and you get this far > > rm -rf / > > and the housecat leaps onto the desk and tromps on the 'enter' > key. > > Could it be that briefly through your mind flashes a change in the dinner > menu before you begin reiterating every crime the cat ever committed and > exploring all the unlikely ancestries the cat may have had? Probably. > > Well I don't like the extra keystroke myself so, > > rm -r /.somercd/messages/ -f > > is my approach. > > Civileme > >
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