fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords)

Matt Crawford matt at oddjob.uchicago.edu
Wed Nov 16 04:31:54 AEST 1988


In article <1232 at atari.UUCP>, achar at atari (Alan Char) writes:
) For example, I would REALLY appreciate in csh a variable
) 	set expandcheck=5
) So that if some shell expansion expanded to more than 5 things, it would
) prompt for confirmation.  Comments on this idea?

This sounds much, MUCH better than changing any other system program in
any way.
				Matt



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