Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:19:28AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday
> about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
> 
> His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
> rm(1) of FreeBSD:

I'm not so much worried about 'rm -rf /', but I'm more worried about
"rm -rf *" in my home directory. It happened once because I was too
happy switching directories before realising what I was doing in
the wrong directory.

Also, refusing to do it is not the ideal way to go, I think that
if you have two -f's specified it would do it anyway. Just my two
cents of course.

Edwin
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