That sounds interesting Tom, maybe you could give a demo at the next meeting?<div><br></div><div>Nathan.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Thomas Edward Groves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teg451013@freeuk.com">teg451013@freeuk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Talking of things starting with - I've had a slightly similar bit of fun<br>
with an<br>
application called pdfimage<br>
This takes a pdf and extracts all the images into separate files:<br>
numbered off with leading minus signs.<br>
Ever tried doing anything with a file like that?<br>
I wound up writing a C program to use the rename function just to get at the<br>
damn things.<br>
<br>
Still, beats watching TV.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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On 9 September 2010 13:49, Adam Buckland <<a href="mailto:Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com">Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Remember many moons ago someone created a file –r * in the root directory<br>
of<br>
> a server… removed it by specifying the inode<br>
<br>
alternatively: rm ./-\ \*<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
> [mailto:<a href="mailto:kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] On Behalf Of David Halliday<br>
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> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] My PFY<br>
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> The same reason you would want to go to your box and run (as root):<br>
><br>
> rm -rf /<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Or any other command that someone tells you you could try without doing a<br>
> quick bit or research.<br>
><br>
> On 9 September 2010 13:10, Martin A. Brooks <<a href="mailto:martin@antibodymx.net">martin@antibodymx.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, September 9, 2010 12:53, Adam Buckland wrote:<br>
>> Try kill -9 -1 then as root!<br>
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> Umm, why would I do that?<br>
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