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Re:Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough by rooted on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:34PM (#7381237)
I can't think if a situation rm is safer than rm -f unless you want to have confirmations for each file that's deleted.

I'm a fan of aliasing rm to move files into a trash folder

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Re:Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough by tjpick on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @04:28PM (#7381908)
it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.
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Re:Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough by wahnfrieden on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @07:49PM (#7383026)
Just alias a third command that moves to your trash directory and won't accidentally trigger rm when you're on a new machine.
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