If you try to put in safeguards for every possible system-nuking command someone with root rights might type, you’ll never get done.
When you’re typing “rm -rf” as root, you should immediately stop and triple-check what you’re doing.
Cause either there’s a safer way to do what you want to do, or what you’re trying isn’t a good idea in the first place.
(Even when you want to delete lots of stuff in root space, a better way is to use find
. You can use it to look for and list the files you want to delete. After you’ve checked its output and verified that those are the correct files, just cursor-up to get the same find
query again and add --delete at the end)