Has anyone here ever aliased rm to rm --preserve-root?

Kenny_Strawn · 08-31-2010, 12:01 AM

I am trying out this following modification to my ~/.profile:

Code:

alias rm=`rm --preserve-root`

Just so you know, this will, by default, prevent rm -rf / from being run, returning an error when rm -rf / is invoked. I want to know if any of you guys have ever tried this yourselves. I will possibly also add this to my system-wide /etc/profile.

Tinkster · 08-31-2010, 12:20 AM

According to the man-page --preserve-root is the default
behaviour; if you want something other than that you have to
be explicit. Not sure what benefit an alias would give you.

Cheers,
Tink