Re: OT: the rm bug hit me again

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:41 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:

Better to alias it to some command which doesn't exist, like del, and
train yourself to use del. If the alias isn't present all you get is
'del: command not found' rather than a depleted filesystem.

I seem to recall that del was a preset alias on some Linux
distributions, some time ago.

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