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by marcosdumay 4076 days ago
When young I once had the opinion that such exceptions would be a good thing.

That is, until I installed some version of Red Hat that aliased rm to "rm -i", and extracted a few wrong tar files. Then I understood why the shell is that way, and why everybody just clicks "ok" on Windows dialog boxes without reading the alerts. Funny thing is that I lost some important files because I expected the prompt, but pressed "y" 19 times, instead of 18...

Nowadays I Just do backups.