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In article <SP2STES1.95Mar27110801@sol1.ida.his.se>,
Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund  <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> wrote:
>
>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> writes:
>In article <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) writes:
>
>>> 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?
>
>Martin> This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.
>
>Not that easy.
>Why ??
>You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
>rm or the shell ??
>the shell does the expansion and forward it to rm as parameters.
>rm will find the list in argv.
>How is rm gonna know argv is the result of a * substitution.

Here's a quick solution that works with bash.  This can be made
smarter as desired.  It does not work in ksh.

alias rm="set -f; _rm"
_rm()
{
	for a
	do
		case "$a" in
		\*)	echo -n "rm: remove all? "
			read ans
			case "$ans" in
			y*|Y*)	;;
			*)	set +f ; return 1;;
			esac ;;
		*)	;;
		esac
	done
	set +f
	command rm "$@"
}
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