> Anybody should know that before typing "rm -rf *" or an equivalent, > you THINK FIRST, every time.
And AFTER you type it. The prompt doesn't make the slightest difference when the death knell sounds: rm: .o: No such file or directory and it dawns on you there was an extra space in the last thing you typed: rm -f * .o Argh! At least GNU rm won't do what a version of Xenix (running on a 80186 :) did to me once. In response to an attempt to to get rid of my personal defaults: # cd /home/phil # rm -rf .* It recursed upwards (..) and killed everything under /home Unix, World of Adventure --- The trick is to keep your backups up to date. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .