On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> > "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote:
> > >
> > > Several months ago, in one of those tragic typing accidents, I
> > > inserted a space into "rm -r *~" on my laptop. I ceased using it
> > Can't help you, but this is an obvious stupidity in rm.
> > rm -r [asterisk] ~ makes no sense. I think rm should be modified to
> > strip blanks after an *.
>
> Under unix-like OS, the * is expanded by the shell, not by the rm command,
> so the rm command never sees the *. You'd have to hack the shell, not the
> rm command, and the question becomes, how do you do that consistently? Do
> you specialcase for a command rm with one of the arguments being * ?
>
>
You should alias rm to be 'rm -i'. This is possible on almost all shells.
Lior.
