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>>>>>> "SSS" == Skoglund  <Stefan> writes:
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>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> writes:
>    SSS> In article <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) writes:
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>    >>> 12) Will hurd give one a way to ask if you really meant
>    >>> to say 'rm *'? How about other common stupid mistakes
>    >>> a unix person might do?
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>    Martin> This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.
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>    SSS> Not that easy.
>    SSS> Why ??
>    SSS> You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
>    SSS> rm or the shell ??
>    SSS> the shell does the expansion and forward it to rm as parameters.
>    SSS> rm will find the list in argv.
>    SSS> How is rm gonna know argv is the result of a * substitution.
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Have a look at zsh, they do exactly this (option RM_STAR_SILENT).
Beside this it has many nice features and a line-editor even closer
to emacs. It is even smaller than bash.
I switched to it after using bash for a long time.
(No offension against bash though, I really like it).

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