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

[Dave]

Best tip I ever read (years ago now and have always used it) it to 
always put the -rf *after* the directory name

rm ~/directory-full-of-junk -rf

Makes a horrible mistake with the return key midway through a directory 
name less likely.

Cheers - Dave

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.