The safety expansion for FreeBSD rm(1)

[Martin Cracauer]

My idea of a safety feature for rm(1):

To solve the problem of doing
  rm foo *
instead of
  rm foo*

Look at what the commandline arguments are.  If at least
- one is appearing twice
- or at least one is not appearing at all

, then do a "*" expand like from a shell (not perfect of course not
easy enough) and see whether all elements of "*" are there *plus*
others with no "/".  If so, the above situation occured and you only
go ahead with a special flag.

Martin
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