Re: I hate it when that happens...
On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:44 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> I found a whole new way to screw up today, but I bet it's in some list
> somewhere:
>
> Instead of:
>
> pipe-command args | /pipe/to/command
> pipe-command args > /pipe/to/command
>
> I did it on Win32, so the dir was writable. Boom. Instantly clobber
> the executable, restore from backup.
Running Win32 was probably your first mistake. :) Reminds me of the time I
did a DEL *.* in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND by accident one day. Oops.
Which brings up another thing. Juha was talking about doing an rm -rf * in
the wrong xterm... Well, one of the first things I did in Linux was show off
for my wife how Linux has file permissions that prevent ordinary users from
doing stupid things (like running DEL *.* in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND :).
So I did a little cd /&&rm -rf * and showed her the impressive stream of
permission denied messages. Until it iterated into /home. Oops.
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