06/03/11 21:31:06 ¶ ●

-i

Very helpful. I was always tempted to sudo rm -rf /, now I can finally do it without losing my home directory. (I’m just kidding)

onethingwell:

If you want to protect a directory from a careless rm -rf *, touching a file named -i inside it will force rm to ask for confirmation :

touch ~/important-directory/-i

From Command Line Fu, via HN.