I just created alias rm="rm -I" to prevent from accidental rm command.
-I prompt once before removing more than three files, or when removing recursively.
Less intrusive than -i, while still giving protection against most mistakes
But it doesn't work. I don't get any prompt when I use rm -rf
If you read the help again you'll see it says previous --interactive. This means you can add an -I after all the other arguments (like at the end of the line) and it'll be honoured again!
To do that, you need a function instead of an alias, but just stick this somewhere in your .bashrc (et al) and you're golden:
function rm { /bin/rm "$@" -I; }
A perhaps safer method than even this is using trash-cli's trash-put command. It will put things in your account's trash directory that can be reviewed/restored/emptied normally. It also has dummy -r, -f and, -i arguments so it makes a perfect alias possible:
alias rm="trash-put"
