Story from the Shoot Yourself in the Foot Dept.

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
24 May 2001 13:21:57 -0400


Mike Szumlinski <szumlins@msu.edu> writes:

> I got you beat....I just typed rm -rf ./* in the wrong directory....
> Which directory you might ask?

Ha!  Practically *any* directory.
I've made it a personal policy that I *never* combine -r and
wildcards.

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