On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Brett Parker wrote:
> *sigh* over generalisation, linux is a *kernel*, it is not the operating
> system. And certainly I have not got any of the GNU/Linux boxes here
> configured to alias rm to rm -i. It's something that RedHat and many
> derivitives do for you so that you can shoot yourself in the foot more
> easily on other distributions that don't set that inane alias. It's not
> set in a default Debian install.
One person's inane alias is another person's useful alias. These things
are very subjective. I *do* set rm -i. But I set it in my .bash_profile,
which I copy to every account that I use regularly.
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