Bug: link.exe
Ed C. Lueless
ed.c@lueless.org
Wed Jan 5 19:21:00 GMT 2005
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:12:35PM -0500, One Angry User wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> Bold example:
>>
>> alias rm 'rm -f'
>> rm *
>
>hey, i lost all of my home directory because of this command, and i blame
>u! i thought this was a recipe for getting sshd working on my windows
>2003. u should have been clearer! there are n00bies on this list, u
>know, and they will use ur examples, so u gotta be careful! why cygwin
>allow this kind of command, anyway?
>
>One Angry User
>(jes' wanted 2 b the 1st 2 complain about this)
Hey, chill out! Corrina was just showng you how to
use alias. sHe
dint't tell you to remove your home directories!
I have an aliasjust like this except I
add a '-r" to the option
since I hate having to remember whether the thing I'am removing
is a directory onot.
YMMV.
Ciao!
Ed
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