sreangsu acharyya rearranged electrons thusly:
> instead of giving
> rm -fr some_directory
> i wanted to give
> rm -fr some_* to save myself some labour
> but because of my sloppy typing i had typed
> rm -fr some_<space>* <ENTER>
It actually happened more than once .... and on production boxen at that.
One of my friends was at Satyam about five years back - got root on an old unix
box with c shell the default. He wanted to clear out all the files in his /tmp
- and forgot to see the pwd, and what he was logged in as. # rm -rf / tmp
works quite well ...
+suresh
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