bug#27864: [request] safety to prevent `rm -rf ~`

[Assaf Gordon]

severity 27864 wishlist
tags 27864 wontfix
close 27864
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2017-07-29 10:05 a.m., Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 28/07/17 09:28, R0b0t1 wrote:
> > I recently had a script create a file named "~" when I passed it a
> > value for an installation directory. Without thinking the next command
> > I typed was the one in the title. Luckily this was not my main
> > computer and was a virtual machine.

On 2017-07-28 11:07 a.m., Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>
> rm(1) does not see the tilde "~", but the shell expands it before
> invoking the tool:


> This was one of the reasons that upstream ls defaults to quoting
> problematic file names like this. With that you can always
> copy and paste the name ('~' in this case), for subsequent use.
> Even if not copy/pasting '~' would give a visual indication
> that the quoting was needed. If your distro disables that feature,
> you can enable it in your ls alias using --quoting='shell-escape'

Given the above, and no further comments in a year,
I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf