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		floatingatoll on March 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del` /tmp is a ramdisk on some systems, which makes this particular approach a very risky endeavor to use as a global replacement for ‘rm’ as the OP suggests.

emondi on March 17, 2019 [–]

Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off. If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.

floatingatoll on March 17, 2019 | [–]

I meant to warn others that, for example, “del foo.iso” could fail due to OOM. As long as they understand that, your use case will work fine for them.

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