unless of course you meant to type rm -rf *.bak and accidently typed
rm -rf * (and hit return prematurely) DOH! <slaps himself in the face for past mistakes> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:08:40 -0800 "Bill Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:44:48AM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 04:34, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> It's a lot easier to copy all the text files in a directory to a > >> floppy by typing ``cp *.txt /auto/floppy'' than it is to select them > >> with a GUI, right-click copy, go find the floppy in another file > >> manager, then > > > >It's a lot easier to make a typo, too. > > Yabbut with command history, it's easy to fix it and rerun the command. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) > 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > ``Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the > exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and > these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, > or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those > whom they oppress.'' -- Frederick Douglass. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the > above URL. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
