Re: shell-mode flakey

[Miles Bader]

Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> When I discussed this some time ago with one of the bash
> maintainers, he said that he had just recovered all files of a
> colleague who had typed "rm foo *" instead of "rm foo*". For those
> and only those cases I'd like to have a reliable interactive query
> before rm will do its job.

One simple possibility might be a "--query-if-multiple" option, which
would act like -i if there was more than one command-line filename
argument.

That wouldn't  help for all cases, but I think it would catch a large
proportion of common typos...

-Miles

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