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You could of course alias rm -rf to rm -rf -i

• marc_abonce 2y ago
  I always use trash-cli and alias rm to 'echo NO! #'. Only if the file is too big to fit into the garbage bin, I can unalias rm, rm the thing and then reset the alias immediately after.
  • tarxvf 2y ago
    fwiw you can usually bypass aliases ad-hoc. In Bash I believe instead of `ls` you can `\ls` to get the unaliased version.
    • pests 2y ago
      You can also use the full path to the program, enclose it in quotes, or call "unalias ls" to disassociate it for that shell.
• bardan 2y ago
  There is also safe-rm https://adamheins.com/blog/a-safer-rm https://adamheins.com/blog/a-safer-rm
• immibis 2y ago
  I thought -f cancels out -i, and when you alias "rm=rm -i", and then run "rm -rf" you get "rm -i -rf" and -f is last so it still wins.