[Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

I saw someone do:-

rm -rf .*

to remove .profile etc however it worked it's way down through .. and
trashed the system!

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Williams [mailto:addw at phcomp.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 16:23
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] root Desktop settings revert.


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 ...

(Think about the mistiming in the use of the shift key which makes this
not as silly as it seems).

-- 
Alain Williams

#include <std_disclaimer.h>


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