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groxx

@b0rk I assume no, because it doesn't exist in everything I connect to, but yeah - I pretty reliably forget about it for years at a time, but I do make sure to add it whenever I start up something new. I've got a check for it in some of my reused dotfiles setup scripts, for example.

groxx

@b0rk it has saved my bacon once, and I managed to ctrl-c early enough on another machine's `sudo rm -rf ~` to not lose anything important. Hence: paranoia is healthy.

It really should be the default. It's much too easy to accidentally do that in scripts with bad string handling, and the few legitimate uses are so rare and so special that "run /bin/real_rm` by hand" is entirely reasonable.

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