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		rooted on March 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough I can't think if a situation rm is safer than rm -f unless you want to have confirmations for each file that's deleted. I'm a fan of aliasing rm to move files into a trash folder

tjpick on March 11, 2014 [–]

it's probably safer to just remember to use mv instead, because there's a very high chance that you'll do the wrong thing on a terminal that doesn't have that alias available.

wahnfrieden on March 11, 2014 | [–]

Just alias a third command that moves to your trash directory and won't accidentally trigger rm when you're on a new machine.

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