[Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.

[Nix]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Alain Williams spake:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:49:08PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
>> * Russell Mackenzie <russmack at btinternet.com> spake thus:
>> > I'd be interested to hear how people learned this lesson. For me it was
>> > when I did rm -rf / - twice in two weeks!
>> 
>> rm -rf *
> 
> How about:
> 	rm *>o
> 
> & you loose all of your source files ...

Or this little beauty I wrote long ago:

for name in /usr/bin/stuff-*; do
    rm -f `echo $name | cut -d- -f2`
    mv -f $name `echo $name | cut -d- -f2`
done

and then a few days later I ran the script twice. The second time, of
course, no files matched /usr/bin/stuff-*...

(These days I'd use ${...%%...} of course, if I did such a thing at
all --- plus I'd set nullglob...)

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                                             `Oh, no dinner for him...'


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