Re: Too many args for rm *.in

[Eric Windisch <southpark@nni.com>]

I know someone (not me) who ran a program as root without his home variable set right,
and the program saved his preferences to /.  the files were named something
like: "default*".  well, this user  did a "rm /de* -rf", forgetting about  /dev/... did
a number on that system.

- Eric Windisch
  ( Not me)


Michael wrote:

> >>  My reply to ray beckler's mail was:
>
> > BE CAREFUL!  "rm -rf"  will remove everything in the directory you name and
> > below it, no questions asked.  So just make sure you're in the right place
> > when you issue the command and don't use wildcards.  I did that once, "rm -rf
> > ray*", left out the space between ray and * --- nasty, very nasty.
>
> You've only done that *once* ??
>
> =)
>
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