with tcsh, "set rmstar" will give you a confirmation prompt when doing something like "rm (star)". and while i'm at it, "set noclobber" has saved me a few time

with tcsh, "set rmstar" will give you a confirmation prompt when doing something like "rm (star)". and while i'm at it, "set noclobber" has saved me a few times from doing something like "grep file > someotherfile" when i meant to do "grep file >> someotherfile".