OT: the rm bug hit me again

Wed Oct 25 01:58:29 UTC 2006

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:04:28AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 24Oct2006 19:50, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:

> The core skill I learnt as a sysadmin was not "don't do rm *" but "pause
> and THINK before pressing return".

Or run "ls ..." first, then uparrow and replace the ls with the rm.

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