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Sourabh
Asked: 2014-02-10 11:27:14 +0800 CST

Aliased rm, how do I also alias sudo rm

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I aliased rm to a echo use del or full path to rm to save myself from accidental rm (just lost my $HOME to it).

But sudo rm still uses /bin/rm. How can I alias it to also print same message?

PS: del is alias to trash-put

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  1. You could install you own version of rm in /usr/local/bin which is searched before /usr/bin where rm is.

    Make a file 'sudo nano /usr/local/bin/rm' with the following contents:

    #!/bin/bash
echo use del of full path to rm

    Remember to make it executable

    sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/rm

    EDIT

    I don't think it a good idea to change the semantic behavior of 'rm'. A lot of other programs and scripts are using 'rm' and expect it to behave in the normal way.

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