Warning, extreme geekage follows. If you don't speak bash, just skip it. On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:52:46AM +1200, David Mann wrote: > On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Christian wrote: > > We have such a prompt set up on our production system at work. If > you're already "really sure" you can use rm -f instead. And when I do > that I'm _very_ careful!
I don't remember the exact detaild, but in general, I was under a "meet this deadline or be fired" situation when I needed to delete everything in the foobar subdirectory and typed something like rm -rf foo[tab]* in / What I didn't notice until too late was that it expanded to rm -rf foobar/ * The good news is that it deleted the symlink I had set up to /home before it could get to my home directory, so I merely lost everything that was installed on my computer and didn't lose my home directory. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
