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Aucbvax.4031 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Thu Sep 24 22:57:57 1981 Random question from BH@MIT >From decvax!yale-comix!mp@Berkeley Thu Sep 24 15:09:15 1981 We have a modified version of csh which attempts to provide TOPS-20 like recognition features. Since the changes are all in the lexer input logic, it has been easy to further modify it to set an environment variable to the command line. This could possibly help the programs ask the user if he really wants to do something like `rm *' or `cat * >> x.c'. For `rm' alone, however, there is an easier solution, originally due, I think, to John Ellis at Yale - alias rm 'cp !* ~/deleted/!* ; rm !*' alias unrm 'mv ~/deleted/!* !*' plus have the .logout file contain the line 'rm ~/deleted/*' Of course, this solution assumes the shell has aliasing.

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