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I am sympathetic to your comment because it feels like we are babying users. To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to pr
by Crontab 9y ago
I am sympathetic to your comment because it feels like we are babying users. To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.
- shawnz 9y agoI thought they changed it to prevent buggy scripts from executing rm with empty variables? That's not necessarily the fault of the user.
- pikzen 9y agoWhich, by any standard, is a good thing unless you're an elitist, gatekeeping prick.
- pcwalton 9y ago> To me, this is no different than when FreeBSD and GNU modified the rm command to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. Which was the right change. It prevents data loss for negligible added complexity.