Subject: Re: Why not use root all the time?
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 11:39:08 AKDT
> Good point, while that particular command is not one you might do, a
> 'rm *' in the wrong directory could erase some valuable date. Maybe just
> don't do wildcards.
This is good advice even if your system is set up to ask about each file
unless you specifically type -f.. Because sooner or later you are going
to change distros or be on some other system and you'll type rm *
expecting to be asked about each file and instead it will just start
deleting all the files willy-nilly. I learned this the hard way when I
switched from Mandrake to SuSE.. :)
Justin
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