Bug 118117 – alias cp, rm, mv to add -i argument

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description bedo 2006-01-06 16:43:38 UTC]

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

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-01-06 16:55:54 UTC]

no