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Article #62971Re: Hurd questions
From: Gora Mohanty
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00
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In <SP2STES1.95Mar27110801@sol1.ida.his.se> Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund <sp2stes1@ida.his.se> writes:
>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr <tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at> writes:
>In article <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> tbm@tci002.uibk.ac.at (Martin Michlmayr) writes:
>>> 12) Will hurd give one a way to ask if you really meant
>>> to say 'rm *'? How about other common stupid mistakes
>>> a unix person might do?
>Martin> This would be easy to implement. A few lines of code.
>Not that easy.
>Why ??
>You have to decide whom is gonna do this check.
>rm or the shell ??
'tcsh' already does this if you set the shell variable 'rmstar'
Viz.,
% set rmstar
% rm * .o
Do you really want to delete all files? [n/y]
Regards,
Gora
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,ef34758fb4e8c162 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: gora@iastate.edu (Gora Mohanty) Subject: Re: Hurd questions Date: 1995/03/30 Message-ID: <gora.796598145@pv740d.vincent.iastate.edu> X-Deja-AN: 100560871 references: <81696@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <3kpfba$k85@jak.cosy.sbg.ac.at> <SP2STES1.95Mar27110801@sol1.ida.his.se> organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss