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Command that adds a "-i" file in every subdirectory to prevent "rm -rf *" expansion
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prevent_glob_rm.sh
# rm -rf * will treat -i as an option and ask for deletion
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname "*" -exec touch {}/-i \; -exec chflags hidden {}/-i \;
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