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A tempest in a toybox
However, I have become so accustomed to using this form that I then to do it by default and have accidently removed files I didn't mean to ....
alias rm="rm -i" ends up being worthless because it drives the average user mad. But alias mv="mv -i" has saved me a few times and the same with cp.
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