Protection from "rm *"

[Paul Chamberlain]

In article <AAS.90Oct11100737 at boeygen.nr.no> aas at boeygen.nr.no (Gisle Aas) writes:
>The "-i" file trick does not work if you use rm the right way: rm -f - *

I believe that the goal is to protect from mistyping "rm file1 n*" and
getting "rm file1n *".  It has happened to me when in a hurry.

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