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kovidgoyal · 05-04-2011, 01:41 PM

Coming to rm -rf stories, when I was a lot stupider I aliased rm -rf as rm on the theory that typing -rf every time was too much work.

I rather quickly saw the error of my ways

Thankfully, I did not think to blame the creators of BASh for having an alias function.

05-04-2011, 01:41 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,413 Karma: 27757236 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Coming to rm -rf stories, when I was a lot stupider I aliased rm -rf as rm on the theory that typing -rf every time was too much work. I rather quickly saw the error of my ways Thankfully, I did not think to blame the creators of BASh for having an alias function. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 05-04-2011 at 01:44 PM.