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Yamar
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 Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: bash warnings? |
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Is there any way to enable warnings for rm, cp, mv etc. in bash? For example if I do a:
rm foo
it will ask if I'm sure I want to remove the file before removing it.
I've had this in other distros. How do I enable it in Gentoo?
I've searched the forums and google and didn't find anything on this.
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Earthwings
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Location: Germany
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Basically you've got to look up in the manpage ("man cp" etc.) how to have it ask for confirmation and then add an alias for it. Putting it in ~/.bashrc makes it available automatically.
I don't know how other distros accomplish this, but I'm pretty sure they just put something like
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alias rm="rm -i"
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
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in /etc/skel/.bashrc.
You want to add the above to /home/<your-username>/.bashrc |
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Voltago
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Add to your /etc/profile the line
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Yamar
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| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the fast replies! It's working now  |
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