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040529 Simon Roby wrote: |
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> On May 29, 2004 0527, Aaron Walker wrote: |
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>> purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote: |
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>>> it's always best to stop & look before hitting Enter w 'rm -rf *', |
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>>> esp to check you are in the correct dir & know wh files/dirs are there. |
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>> I fell victim to `rm -fr` a few weeks ago after being up 30 hr |
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> I did a `rm -rf *` in my home directory. |
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given that 'rm' automatically rejects '..' & '.' in these circumstances, |
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it really shd also reject '/' & '~' (incl '/home/username'). |
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i wonder whether the Gentoo developers cd fix the Gentoo version to do that ? |
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