On 15 April 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > This isn't true of the rm(1) command. No operand means delete nothing.
The following article gives more specifics: <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html> The script actually contained rm -rf {foo}/{bar} The error caused foo and bar to be null so the result was rm -rf / -- Scott --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
