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