[vox] LUGOD member needed for TV interview

[Ken Herron]

--On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 09:52:35 -0700 Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> 
wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:48:17AM -0700, donw at examen.com wrote:
>> Screw that, I'm an expert! ;)  I can tell my tale of destroying a
>> two-day build with an errant 'cp'...
>
> Heh, first thing I do when I get a new shell account is alias 'cp', 'mv'
> and 'rm' to 'cp -i', 'mv -i' and 'rm -i', respectively. :^)

Heh, the first thing I do when I log into a box with those aliases set is 
to curse the person who thought they were a good idea. Those aliases are 
dangerous. You get used to typing unnecessarily broad wildcards, then one 
day you log in somewhere where the aliases aren't in place and blow away 
half a filesystem.

If someone really thinks they need aliases like these, they should at 
least use different names for the commands, like "copy", "move", and 
"remove".

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