On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:56:10PM +0800, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote:
> moral of the anecdote: if you start playing with fire, make sure you
> know how to handle it properly, and with respect.
Back when my brother and I both actively used nothing but MS-DOS and
Windows, I remember the pain of running
C:\> deltree /y *.*
Without remembering exactly where we were. A quick Ctrl-Break would help
but still, the pain of all those files getting lost.
And then in Linux there are painfully sleepy nights when accidentally
hostname:/# rm -fR *
It is for this reason that I never go running around as root, and I make
sure I blink at least thrice before doing a massive removal especially
on the data partitions. ;)
--> Jijo
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