[PLUG] List Working?

Jason Dagit dagit at engr.orst.edu
Tue Jul 30 08:43:17 UTC 2002


Yeah, my friend and I were having a coding session and he meant to get rid
of the ~ files too...same thing.  We had just completely rewritten the
code so that it was working, and we were cleaning up before the
archival...

>From then on I archive, then clean up...well and CVS helps a lot too :)

Jason

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Steve Bonds wrote:
>
> > My personal favorite is:
> >
> > rm -rf / home/user-you-meant-to-remove
>
>   Also indidious was the one I did because my fingers were too fast on the
> [Enter] key:
>   rm .* (from ~/)
> when I intended to type
>   rm .*~
>
>   Have you memorized all the dot files in your home directory?
>
>   A quick trip for the last weekly (full) backup tape bailed me out.
>
> Rich
>
>
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