From: Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed <umarumohammed@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T07:21:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

* Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> [2002-12-07 05:09]:
> From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
> > I was working on the tutorial just now and wanted to delete all the *~
> > files.  But instead of typing `rm *~` I typed `rm *` and all the files
> > were silently deleted.
> > 
> > This could have been a tragedy if I didn't have a recent backup made on a
> > sepparate directory.  Since I did, I actually lost very little work.
> > 
> > Lesson of the day:  Always backup.  Eventually you'll be glad you did.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Daniel.
> 
> Also:
>   CVS
>   alias rm='rm -i'
>   vim: set backupdir=/tmp      [I presume the *~ files come from vim?]

Instead of the alias for rm, you could place a file called "-i" [1], 
in directories of importance (or all). This works well for multi-user 
machines, because it then doesn't matter whether the user has rm 
aliased or not.

			--ibz.

[1] - e.g. "touch -- -i"
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