On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > There's an amusing defence against that: 'touch /--version'. Then 'rm > -rf *' in / expands to 'rm -rf <stuff> --version <more stuff>', and does > nothing except print its version number and copyright information. Hmm. Along those lines, I guess it's a good idea to watch out for people scattering around files called "-rf" :-/ Richard