[ILUG] harddisk swap

Ciaran Johnston cj at nologic.org
Fri Apr 30 10:03:27 IST 2004


Bryan ODonoghue said:
>> On my system (Fedora-1) cp -a already includes -r = --recursive .
>
> Just as a general whinge... when I tell my system rm -rf / , I really
> didn't  mean rm -rfi / damnit.

You can get around this once with a backslash:
\rm -rf /
or forever by finding and removing the alias to rm -i.

/Ciaran.






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