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From: | Bob Proulx |
Subject: | Re: Deprecating mv's --reply={yes,no,query} option |
Date: | Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:12:15 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.9i |
James Youngman wrote: > Tim Waugh wrote: > > Some Linux distributions have alias rm="rm -i" for root, and the way > > Alternatives: > # /bin/rm foo > # unalias rm > > I prefer the second. The alias becomes a handicap as soon as you > start to rely on it, especially in a heterogeneous environment. Agreed. There is also \rm as a way to avoid the alias too. But then you start to see people write that into scripts because they think they need to. I prefer editing the root .bashrc file to remove those aliases on those systems that define them. Then they are gone and you don't have to worry about them anymore. Bob
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