At 3:08 PM +0200 2004/04/20, Daniel Lang wrote: >> That's kinda silly. Unless files are backed up at every edit then most of >> us only have periodic filesystem backups. Lets say I just download a 150M >> file and then accidentally delete it. Rather than wasting time and bandwidth >> downloading again it'd be simpler to just 'unrm' it. Odds are that diskspace >> and even inode haven't been recycled yet. [ ... deletia ... ] > simple solution: > > alias rm="rm -i" We recently discussed this subject on FreeBSD-Chat. Please see the thread including my message at <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-April/002292.html>. In short: been there, done that -- fifteen years ago. [0] There are major problems with this concept which need to be solved in different ways. [0] Not the twenty that I had originally claimed, due to my faulty memory. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles_at_skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 07:53:21 UTC
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