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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:36:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610201536.30151.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061020021142.GA5829@sympatico.ca>

On Friday 20 October 2006 04:11, Philip Webb wrote:
> When using 'rm -f' (with or without '-r') the iron rule is
>
>   (1) goto the dir which contains the items to be removed
>   (2) 'pwd'
>   (3) 'ls <whatever>'
>   (4) if <whatever> is not '*', recall that line with Up-arrow,
>       backspace over 'ls' & replace with 'rm -f'
>   (5) sit on hands for  >= 10 sec  while examining the results of (2
> 3 4)

A 10 second minimum? Gee, you're brave!

:-)

On that note, one enhancement I'd like to see to rm is a --pretend 
option. -i isn't the same thing, I'd like rm to tell me "I'm about to 
delete the following: ... " 

Anyone know of a patch that provides this?

alan

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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-18 20:07 [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib Stuart Howard
2006-10-19 15:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2006-10-19 15:37 ` Mark
2006-10-19 19:29   ` Nico Schümann
2006-10-19 20:41     ` Stuart Howard
2006-10-20  2:11       ` Philip Webb
2006-10-20 13:36         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]

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