[Gllug] Is this funny

tet at accucard.com tet at accucard.com
Wed Jan 2 11:50:49 UTC 2002


>It's a bit of a bugger though, I have been in situations (years ago) where
>people have typed a rm -rf * in the wrong place and taken out useful things
>like /bin, so you have a live system that is practically useless. Without ls
>it's nice to be able to cat . :)

Been there, done that! "echo *" is your friend :-) But yes, being able to
directly access the directory is handy in some cases. It still works on
most non-Linux Unices, though.

Tet

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