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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 26, 2009 4:58 UTC (Thu) by shimei (guest, #54776)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by rsidd
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

An interesting side effect of this proposal to make sensible file names is that a hack I use to prevent "rm -rf *" from deleting everything won't work. I keep a file named "-i" in / so if I accidentally try to rm everything, it will go into interactive mode and stop me. Of course, I think that isn't a great loss if it fixes other things.


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