[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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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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