From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T10:32:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

From: "Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed" <umarumohammed@btinternet.com>

> >   alias rm='rm -i'
>
> 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"
> --

Yes, someone mentioned that, and I must say I think it's very clever.  Very
clever indeed.

Cheers,
Gavin