[TriLUG] A funny thing happened

Andrew Perrin andrew_perrin at unc.edu
Fri Jan 25 14:05:41 EST 2002


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:

> rm -fr ~
> 
> Here's the funny part.  I meant to enter:
> 
> rm -fr ./~
> 
> "Golly," I thought to myself as I began to fully appreciate what that command 
> had gone and done, "that sure is a powerful command."  It had completely 
> erased my user directory contents.  I was laughing at my mistake while I 
> reloaded MDK8.1 twice and setup my mail accounts again.

Ummm... why do you need to reinstall the OS because you deleted user-space
files?


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