On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 12:29, DaZZa wrote:
> Mind you, I'd expect that the command _should_ have errored because you
> had a "-" in the middle of it - it should have accepted the next option as
> an argument, not part of a filename.
>
> Except I just tested it, and it went back to my home directory and deleted
> everything. Whups. :-) Foolish me. There's obviously something in that
> {maybe the - *} bit which sends it back to your home dir and deletes
> everything.
Doing a "cd -" will expand to the last directory you were in:
(peter@fizgig)(peter)(577)
$ cd slug/ctte-meetings/
(peter@fizgig)(ctte-meetings)(578)
$ cd -
/home/peter
(peter@fizgig)(peter)(579)
$ cd -
/home/peter/slug/ctte-meetings
(peter@fizgig)(ctte-meetings)(580)
$
I'm not game to try it with an rm. :-)
> And I should have never attempted to test it. :-)
Woo! Are we awarding a prize for most creative way to lose data? ;-)
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