same as $ echo "adding new line" > my.only.file instead of ">>" redirect... aackkk! ext3 has no undelete or recover.. thats when GUI's like "mc" comes handy to simplify simple tasks... hehe
...happy typing ----- Original Message ----- From: "Federico Sevilla III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: [plug] Re: [OT] rm -rf > 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 > > -- > Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> > Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. > GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
