[lug] cp and rm

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed Aug 1 14:03:45 MDT 2001


I'm going off memory of the original post, but I believe the script sourced
the .bashrc file of the user that wrote it.  Typically the .bashrc then
sources the /etc/bashrc where I believe the bad aliases live.

FWIW,

Hugh


"Tom Tromey"
> 
> >>>>> "David" == David  <dajo at frii.com> writes:
> 
> David> Personally I like the -i option; the complaint I have is that
> David> sometimes I do not seem to be able to disable it with unalias.
> 
> That's curious.
> 
> Are you sure it is an alias and not something else?
> Use `type foo' to see what `foo' is (if you use bash).
> 
> Tom



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