Re: [Nolug] Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin

* Me <pmheart6@yahoo.com> [2013-08-06 16:09:21 -0700]:
> Is this a trait....
>
> You can tell a story of typing
>
> rm -rf /
>
> At 2 am. (Or some other time)

In my experience, it's more like:

rm -rf something- *

Notice the space between the "-" and the "*" that inadvertantly crept in
there (!). It's especially bad the closer to the root dir you happen to
be when that happens.

I suppose someone could also do something like (though I personally have
never done this):

rm -rf / absolute_pathname

Again, notice the unintended space in there (!).
 
--Phil

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Philip Amadeo Saeli
openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS
psaeli@zorodyne.com
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