They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:09PM (#24574623)

Yeah, some people recommend something like

    alias rm=‘rm -i’

Unfortunately, as soon as you’re on another computer or at someone else’s shell, you’ll be more comfortable thinking less about rm-ing things and the sanity check won’t be there.

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by pwg on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:53PM (#24574801)

The better recommendation is to alias rm -i to del:

    alias del='rm -i'

And then get in the habit of using 'del' unless you really want a no-confirmation delete.

Then when you are on another computer or at someone else's shell you get:

    del: command not found

Instead of having a bunch of files silently deleted.

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:11PM (#24574886)

Another trick is to run

    touch —- -i

In important directories. Then rm -rf * expands to rm -rf .... -i ... and you get the “are you sure” prompt.

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:44PM (#24575026)

This strategy will fail pretty badly if you're on someone else's computer using Windows or DOS, where 'del' is the delete command.

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by happymellon on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:02AM (#24575713)

Does `del -rf /` do a lot on Windows?

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by thaumasiotes on Thursday September 24, 2020 @08:27AM (#24577915)

I doubt it, but `del *` should do the same thing on both systems.

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Re:They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [vi... by pwg on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:26AM (#24628958)

Except that on windows, "del" defaults to prompting "are you sure" when one types "del *".

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