[ILUG] root shell, and brains

[John Gaughan]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Martin Donlon wrote:
> What I would prefer to see is a shell that used regex to match a command
> before it was run and require the root password to be re-entered before
> the command would execute. It's very easy to make stupid typos that
> can screw you royally. E.g. rm -f * .jpg

zsh will do something like this.  It type in 'rm *' or 'rm path/*' it
will prompt you before running the command.  

John.

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