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by metal 901 days ago
Do this in important directories for added safety: $ touch -- - i This creates a file called "-i" which will add the interactive flag, prompting you before deleting every file that rm was going to delete.
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Galanwe 901 days ago
That seems flaky at best. Basically you rely on "*" expansion to inject the -i.

While that may work for `rm -rf *`, it won't for `rm -rf foo/*`, `rm -rf foo`, etc

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metal 901 days ago
That's the point. You're not relying on it, it's a safety to save yourself from an unintended glob expansion.
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Groxx 901 days ago
Or for far better reliability, just use safety and add that to the config.
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