Hello, On Thu, 01 Nov 2012, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 11/01/2012 04:31 PM, e-letter wrote:
There is another distribution that does seem to alias 'rm -i'. As a first gnu/linux distribution (shall not be mentioned to avoid a distribution war), the command terminal automatically warns before removal. Then moving to opensuse, realised the danger ;).
I remember some distros doing this for the root user, but I don't see a danger here. If someone is using a command line tool, the [s]he knows what [s]he is doing. And in case of complicated wildcard expressions for file globbing, there's always the possibility to call `echo CMD ...` first.
That's a really BAD choice of quoting! By `` you execute the commmand you echo. `echo ls -l t.t*` -rw-r--r-- 1 dh dh 376 Jan 11 2012 t.tex -rw-r--r-- 1 dh dh 221 Feb 20 2012 t.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 dh dh 552 Jul 3 2008 t.txt~ HTH, -dnh -- An email message is a big bag of bytes. When you get a big bag of bytes your mailer is supposed to let you LOOK AT IT. When you get a big bag of bytes your mailer is NOT supposed to DO WHAT THE BYTES TELL IT TO DO. -- Mark W. Schumann -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org