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Re: Dangerous feature - multios with globbing

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyharel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dangerous feature - multios with globbing
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:34:04 -0700
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/53102>
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 9:25 AM Nadav Har'El <nyharel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But by mistake, I typed:
>
>     xv > *
>
> What actually happened was that all my files - 4000 of them - were truncated to size 0!

It might be possible to make this particular construct issue a
"really?" prompt when CLOBBER + MULTIOS are set, similar to what "rm"
does when RM_STAR_SILENT is not set.

References:
- Dangerous feature - multios with globbing
  - From: Nadav Har'El

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