OT: the rm bug hit me again
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Wed Oct 25 01:04:28 UTC 2006
On 24Oct2006 19:50, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:
| I alomst hate to admit it but the rm bug bit me for the second
| time in my life over the weekend. The first time was back, oh, late '94 I
| think. But everyone gets bit by this at least once in their *NIX career.
If you use a zsh instead of a bash you can get it to ask when it sees
"rm *" like commands. The RM_STAR_SILENT and RM_STAR_WAIT options.
| But my braindead brain was cleaning out some redundant gunk in /usr/lib
| (like all the versions of firefox and mozilla laying around). You know
| what's coming...
|
| # cd /usr/lib
| # rm -fR mozilla *
| ^-------- There was supposed to be a "." there.
Well the "." is so small and hard to aim at...
| I caught it quickly but not before it whacked some GNOME junk (what the
| heck is a bonobo?).
bonobo is for bidirectional text support AFAIR.
| Oh well, guess it was my turn to play "crusty old phart who does
| stupid newbie move" today. :-)
The core skill I learnt as a sysadmin was not "don't do rm *" but "pause
and THINK before pressing return".
Cheers,
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