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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mark Pecaut wrote:
> Which reminds me of some sysadmin horror stories I read once:
> http://www2.hunter.com/~skh/humor/admin-horror.html
The one below is highly relevant! It's exactly the kind of disaster I was
trying to avoid while deleting files that begin with '..'.
Mike
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From: EMAIL:PROTECTED (Barrie Spence)
Organization: DataCAD Ltd, Hamilton, Scotland
My mistake on SunOS (with OpenWindows) was to try and clean up all the
'.*' directories in /tmp. Obviously "rm -rf /tmp/*" missed these, so I was
very careful and made sure I was in /tmp and then executed
"rm -rf ./.*". I will never do this again. If I am in any doubt as to how
a wildcard will expand I will echo it first.
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