June 3rd, 2011 at 10:38PM

-i

onethingwell:

If you want to protect a directory from a careless rm -rf *, touching a file named -i inside it will force rm to ask for confirmation :

touch ~/important-directory/-i

From Command Line Fu, via HN.

omg this is the best thing ever I’m very excited to tell the guy on my team who accidentally deleted his working directory last month.

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    Someday, this trick might save my life.
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    omg this is the best thing ever I’m very excited...tell the guy on my team who...
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    Very helpful. I was always tempted.../, now I can finally do
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  13. jcg1013 said: nice tip. now if there were something that would help when you mention the containing directory instead of “*” — rm -rf ~/important_directory
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