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by dschuessler 1641 days ago
Not necessarily. If you get used to using `delete` all the time, that is most likely what you would use on the server too. Once you trip over it missing, you are reminded that you are in dangerous territory.
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There are many assumptions here. I manage several servers, but many of these are co-managed. Second, it is not foolproof - muscle memory is very strong and for sure sooner or later I'll type rm again. Third, it doesn't prevents the use of rm in scripts.

That said, an accidental removal of files has never been a problem for me (an accidental chmod -R caused me more woes once), and these days with snapshots it's a complete non issue.