Juha Siltala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on > my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a > temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the > contents of my home directory are gone!
I wrote a script to delete my old email from ~/Mail directory, basically this: find $FOLDERS -type f -mtime $AGE -print0 | xargs -0r rm Unfortunately, I forgot to add $FOLDERS variable, so it picked ~/, and deleted a bunch of old scripts and documents I hadn't touched in awhile. And of course, I didn't have backup.... Really should have tested the script with an echo before an rm... -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
