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+### to prevent accidental shudown, add confirm dialog to commands:
+confirm() {
+    # call with a prompt string or use a default
+    read -r -p "${1:-Are you sure? [y/N]} " response
+    case "$response" in
+        [yY][eE][sS]|[yY]) 
+            true
+            ;;
+        *)
+            false
+            ;;
+    esac
+}
+alias reboot="confirm && reboot"
+alias shutdown="confirm && shutdown"
+alias poweroff="confirm && poweroff"
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