[Nottingham] Hints, tips and err... errors ;-)

[Martin]

On 09/11/10 15:42, Rory Holland wrote:
> I remember once trying to play a "trick" on someone.
> I tried to pipe the output of "rm -rf /" to their tty so they would be
> all scared.
> 
> Unfortunately I was drunk and did the following:
> 
> su
> rm -rfv / | write foo bar
> 
> oh the fun.

Good one. Great jest apart from the side effects and the hang-over! :-(


Just two small problems:

rm doesn't have a Gentoo-esq "p" for 'practice'...

and on my system at least, for mesg I get:

$ mesg
is n

For next time, try mounting an LVM read-write snapshot and running the
rm on the snapshot? :-)


Is "write" ever used still? Anyone?

Or has IRC and twitter taken over?

Cheers,
Martin

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