On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: <deleted> > Even worse, it's always implicitly *first* in the search order, not merely > by default, but there's *no* way to override that. That's an Extremely > Bad Idea; I don't know why Windows designers consider it desirable > or why Windows users consider it even permissible. > > I have kept the following as my ~/ls: > > #! /bin/sh > for I in 5 4 3 2 1; do > echo "$HOME will be deleted (rm -r) in $I seconds!" > sleep 1; done > echo "Fooled ya!" > > Naturally it causes 5 seconds of sheer terror while they search frantically > for the "CANCEL" command for some who cd to my (world searchable) > $HOME on their userIDs and casually issue the "ls" command. > > Hmmm... it was gone today. Some superuser admin must have deemed > it malicious mischief and deleted it. I rewrote it. > > -- gil
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