could you please alias "cp, mv, rm" to add -i to the command line so users are prompted for each file before being removed/overwritten perminantly and not being able to recover (except from backups) it makes it easier for new users to recover from mistakes; power users can always override this themselves. once I typed by mistake "rm filename *" instead of "rm filename*" and everything in that directory is gone. we could do the following edit /etc/bash/bashrc to add the following lines alias cp="cp -i" alias rm="rm -i" alias mv="mv -i" thanks
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