[nadador]

Hey all. I am wondering if there is a way to set my bash shell to warn me before deleting files using rm? As in, I type in "rm file" and it replies "rm: remove 'file'? " (or some such thing). (I'm running 10.3.4 by the way.) I noticed that the unix boxes I use at work do this, but I don't know how to configure bash to do this. Any info would be great. Thanks.

[scoot]

You can do this using an alias. "rm -i" is what you're looking for. Usually, you czn put aliases in your .bashrc file, or in /etc/bashrc if you want it to work for any user.
man bash for the gory details.

Don't depend on it, though. Sucks to oopsify a file on someone else's box...