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RE: Bug: link.exe


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Ed C. Lueless
> Sent: 05 January 2005 19:21

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:12:35PM -0500, One Angry User wrote:
> >On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> >> Bold example:
> >>
> >> 	alias rm 'rm -f'
> >> 	rm *
> >
> >hey, i lost all of my home directory because of this 
> command, and i blame
> >u!  i thought this was a recipe for getting sshd working on 
> my windows
> >2003.  u should have been clearer!  there are n00bies on this list, u
> >know, and they will use ur examples, so u gotta be careful!  
> why cygwin
> >allow this kind of command, anyway?
> >
> >One Angry User
> >(jes' wanted 2 b the 1st 2 complain about this)
> 
> Hey, chill out!  Corrina was just showng you how to 
> use alias.  sHe
> dint't tell you to remove your home directories!
> 
> I have an aliasjust like this except I
> add a '-r" to the option
> since I hate having to remember whether the thing I'am removing
> is a directory onot.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Ciao!
> 
> Ed


  That's nothing.  I hate having to remember if it's a directory or not too, in
fact I hate even having to remember what it's called at all.  



  So I added the '*' into the alias as well.  IT WUURkS GRATE NoW!!111!!!



    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
 



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