You can prepend two spaces to insert <code> (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc): rm -rf ./* rm -rf *.* To stay

You can prepend two spaces to insert <code> (http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc): rm -rf ./* rm -rf *.* To stay on topic, because of this thread, I just added alias rm="rm -I" to .bashrc, and I have never yet needed -f.