🚀 go-pugleaf

In late 1984, a person from marketing came to my machine while I was
in another part of the building.  She intended to `cd /foo`, do some
printing she could not do from her own machine and then, politely,
clean up by `rm -rf *`.  Unfortunately, it happened that I was logged
in as root and she had carelessly `cd /`.   :-(

I personally am not against the current characteristics of `rm`, even
with such dangers, but some others who have had this sort of
experience are.

Those of you who are might want to look at the following, just announced
on comp.os.linux.announce:

    From: jrenicker@goodyear.com (Jeff Renicker)
    Subject: SafeDelete 1.0 -- safely delete/undelete files
    Followup-To: comp.os.linux.setup
    Date: 29 Mar 1995 08:05:12 -0000

    I have uploaded a new set of utilities to sunsite.unc.edu.  They'll be in
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/ until they get moved to their 
    proper place:

        ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/shell/safedelete-1.0.lsm
        ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/shell/safedelete-1.0.tar.gz

    SafeDelete is a set of utilities to allow deleted files to be
    recovered.  The safedelete command serves as an enhancement to
    the rm command ....

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