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Best practices to alias the rm command and make it safer

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Mar 15, 202629434 views
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Some time ago I erroneously deleted my home folder because I ran a on the wrong terminal, whose working directory was the home folder! I wish I had an alias for the command, but it was not the case. Now, I am planning to make a script as an alias for . Do you have any best practice to suggest? Than…

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rm -rf *

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If you want a customized , don't call it but a name of yours, , or whatever. The alias is an horror because after a while using it, you will expect to prompt you by default before removing files. Of course, one day you'll run it with an account that…

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