At 3:37 PM -0500 12/7/06, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> You do have to know the location of the list archives with rm whereas
> with bin/arch you don't. And if you put a typo into bin/arch it can
> at worst wipe out the archives of the wrong list, not large chunks of
> your file system.
Everyone raise your hand if you have accidentally done the command:
# rm -rf / path/to/file/structure/you/really/want/to/delete
Or, managed to do the right command on the wrong machine (where
you've connected to one system, then from there to another, etc...).
/me raises both hands
There's lots of other stupid sysadmin tricks. Trust me, I've learned
the hard way.
Tools like bin/arch are much safer, albeit also slower.
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