Neat idea! Just tested that in an OS X 10.8 virtual machine; while it works nicely against "rm -rf *", sadly it does not help stop an accidental sudo rm -rf /

Neat idea! Just tested that in an OS X 10.8 virtual machine; while it works nicely against "rm -rf *", sadly it does not help stop an accidental sudo rm -rf / or ~/. Also, "touch ~-@" created a file in the home directory called "~-@"; in order to set the correct filename, I cd'd into ~ and then ran "touch ./-@".