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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100)
>> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and
>> that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off.
>
>As far as I know "-f" is already the default...

If you're saying that "-f" is always active when you type "rm" then, no
that is not true.

cgf

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