[Off Topic] Re: Linux security

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

On 5/5/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
> Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
> > rm -i doesn't save you from -fr.
>
> Indeed. That's actually why I think that aliasing rm to 'rm -i' is a
> *bad* idea because it trains the user to then add -f to make the stupid
> thing work. Instead I prefer to make 'rm' just 'rm' and set important
> files to read-only.

It's a nice idea, and one I'm going to implement on my pictures
collections, but it's something you have to do for each file or dir.
rm/cp/mv -i as an alias is done only once. However, it's not really rm
that benefits of this, for me. When deleting pictures or similar
stuff, I normally work in Nautilus. It's cp and mv that save me from
overwriting previous stuff with the -i. And if you move pictures to
and fro, you're bound to get two IMG-123456.JPG files with the same
name, sooner or later. It's worse with webcam shots.

I actually don't use rm -rf all that much, now that I think of it, and
if I'm working with lots of files without -f, rm -i helps me see I'm
actually zapping only the chickens I wanted.


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