[PLUG-TALK] Personal attacks

Mark lemming at quirkyqatz.com
Thu Jan 1 04:33:12 UTC 2004


Jeme A Brelin wrote:
>>Especially with the number of Linux distributions that by default alias
>>rm to rm -i, his rudeness is especially striking in one of today's
>>particular plug rant threads.
> 
> 
> Again, you'll note that every person who responded agreed with me and it
> was pretty good company all around.
> 
> I don't know of any system that ships with rm as an alias.  Especially
> since aliases are handled by the shell and there are lots of ways and
> places to set them.

Well, technically you're correct the systems don't alias rm to rm -i. 
Maybe we should say several distributions have the shells have that as 
an alias.  I don't like it either.

-mark




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