On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:31:16PM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > How can I mention that only *NIX (in my limited personal experience) is > so stupid as to leave the 'rm *' command completely unprotected without > raining on the parade? If you need that kind of protection, alias rm='rm -i' (or your preferred shell's equivalent) will provide it. *nix makes the assumption that, no matter how stupid a command may sound, you're smarter than the computer, so it doesn't try to second-guess you unless you explicitly tell it to. Yes, *nix is stupid. But it knows that and stays out of your way, which is better than assuming that the user is stupid too. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+