restoring deleted files

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Denny White wrote:

> I hate it & it's aggravating, but it's saved me several
> times from another restore, but in .bashrc I have:
>
> alias rm='rm -i'
>
This is good advice.  You can also alias mv and cp similarly, and also 
set noclobber (tcsh) or its equivalent so that > etc do not overwrite 
existing files.

By using file name expansion (TAB, ^D etc) you can also check whether 
file names exist already or not.

--Alex