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The -I flag is a bit more friendly; one may safely alias rm to rm -I and not even notice on the common case (deleting a single file).

• billswift 15y ago
  I use a script that moves a file to a ~/.trash directory when I use rm. If I am sure I want to actually delete a file permanently I just use /bin/rm.
  • gnoupi 15y ago
    But that's also the best way to becoming careless about typing "rm". And the day you will be ssh'd on another computer, you may forget that you are using a command which is really deleting.
  • nathanb 15y ago
    Sounds like a great way to fill up your disk to me.
    • presto8 15y ago
      You could use a cron job that removes the "deleted" files after some period, such as 30 days.