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Re:Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) by conexions on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @02:40PM (#6129083)
Did you read the article?
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Re:Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) by TallGuyShort on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @03:26PM (#6129399)
... yeah? Do you have an actual point to make now? All of his suggestions are very fundamental changes that will break a lot of uses of rm. On the surface they seem to handle your typical users, 'rm -rf ...' but rm's behavior has been an assumed standard for a LONG time. Aliasing it is a baad idea.
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Re:Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) by conexions on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:20PM (#6129745)
Do you have an example of how aliasing could break a script?
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