Re: scripting question

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Scott Henson said:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 20:40, nate wrote:
>> rm -rf *
> Do me a favor.  Try this on your system as root.  Then walk a way and come
> back an hour later.  Youll need another system to tell us what happened
> cause yours will be hosed.  This command will generally delete your entire
> file system.  Trust me, Ive done a form of it before(mv *).

being a unix/linux user for nearly 10 years I know what rm -rf *
does :)

and I've done it plenty of times

nate