Protection from "rm *"

[Peter Funk]

In <1100 at bilver.UUCP> bill at bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
bv> In article <1990Oct11.184004.9353 at nntp-server.caltech.edu> 
	gwoho at nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) writes:
bv> >
bv> >a good way to protect people from accidental "rm *" is to type "rm /bin/rm"

bv> Well you can't do that on SysV type systems.  You will get an error message
bv> with "Text file busy".  It won't removed itself, because it is in use,
bv> trying to remove itself ;-)

On SysV there is another good way yielding similar results for 
the same kind of lusers:
	mv /bin/rm '/bin/rm -i'

;-) Sorry .... I couldn't resist...  ;-) ;-)
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