On 24Oct2006 19:50, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What's the difference between sensual and kinky? A feather is sensual. The whole chicken is kinky.
