[ronjakoi]

I used to have alias rm='rm -i' for a few years to be careful, but I took it out once I realised that I had just begun adding -f all the time

[Mawr]

Yeah, but that's because it's implemented poorly. It literally asks you to confirm deletion of each file individually, even for thousands of files.

What it should do is generate a user-friendly overview of what's to be deleted, by grouping files together by some criteria, e.g. by directory, so you'd only need to confirm a few times regardless of how many files you want to delete.

[wonger_]

See also rm -I (capital i), which only prompts when deleting directories or >3 files