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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
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> Well, I just did something REALLY stupid: "rm -rf * /mnt/floppy"
> while in my home directory. Not only did I nuke the floppy, I nuked
> EVERYTHING in my home directory, including every subdirectory. (didn't
> nuke . directories though, thank goodness! <G>) My boss (the "head
> geek" here at Chattanooga Online internet) says that qualifies me for
> the title "sysadmin." ;-) Oh, well...nothing serious lost. Just my
> mail spool and all my desktop shortcuts. Too bad there's not something
> like the "recover" command in Novell or the trashcan in Windows where
> you can recover stuff... :-)
>
Oops... I've done stupid stuff like that before.... try this:
$ find . -exec `rm -Rf {}` \;
Or somethign like that... I don't remember the exact syntax, but the point
is that the -name is left out. Oops. That sends EVERYTHING to rm. Even
.* dirs and files.
Well, I learned from that one.
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