[ale] Bash history

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Nov 30 09:31:38 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:58, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > 683 is simply the line number in the history file.  One must read their
> > file first or read the output of the history command to know what
> > command is associated with 683
> 
> That could really REALLY suck if you used the wrong 
> line number and that line was: "rm -r -f *"  or worse.. 
> 

Whats the point?  UNIX does exactly what you want it to do.  It would
suck if I typed the wrong arguments to rm or did rm -rf in the wrong
directory.

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