Re: I hate it when that happens...

[William Ballard <40711.nospam@comcast.net>]

> On Sunday 01 August 2004 05:35 pm, Juha Siltala wrote:
> 
> > One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on
> > my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a
> > temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the
> > contents of my home directory are gone!

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.