[Nottingham] *nix most dangerous command line commands...

Michael Simms lug at toomanysites.org
Thu Jun 19 14:43:01 UTC 2014


Well I haven't posted for an awful long time, but hooray, I'm back now 
I've got my backside in gear and sorted out my email.

Most dangerous un*x commands, well, my current ones are:

* and & are next to each other. If you're removing a big bunch of files, 
and want to background it, you can easily instead select everything.


My fear for the last 20 years is because I have emacs aliased to 'em', 
and one day, one day, I'll hit the key next to the E instead. It's an 
incredibly dangerous alias, but I still haven't made the mistake - and I 
can't believe I just said that {:-)

-- 
Michael Simms




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