Re: Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

[David Talkington]

>If I leave off the -f flag GNU rm seems to ask about _every_ bloody
>file. This makes it so close to useless that one must use -f all the
>time. Which is VERY VERY BAD, because it makes habitual the "don't do
>any sanity checks at all" mode. Dangerous in the extreme.

On Red Hat, by default:

# alias rm
alias rm='rm -i'

It's set in .bashrc.  Just get rid of the alias, and you won't get
"interactive".

'Zat help?

-d



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