The vi editor causes brain damage [2007]

Not anymore:

    $ mkdir bar
    $ cd bar
    $ for i in {1..40000};do touch $i;done # create 40k files
    $ rm *
    $ # no warning

But it has nothing to do with `rm` itself, it was due to the fact that the glob expansion was done by Bash.

There are good arguments against vi, its variations and descendants. This isn't one of them.

I clicked the link with excitement that this was some sort of intellectual discourse on implication on brain of stationary posture while computing(i.e., not moving hands away from keyboard for a very long time).

I am disappointed.

Wouldn't rm as part of GNU binutils, be more likely written in Emacs?

This behavior is encountered whenever * is expanded by the shell and has nothing to do specifically with vi or rm.

I also fail to see how posting a troll comment from a mailing list from a person who fundamentally doesn't understand the *nix CLI environment belongs here.

Just find . -type f -exec rm -f {} \; I had to do this when I had to delete millions of cache files and rm couldn't do that.

i tried to google this dude and found what could be his website, but when I click on it, my company network blocks me and says it has nudity