Hi! On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 06:20:46PM +0000, Steven Moore wrote: > root@liquid# rm -rf .* <a momentary lapse of sanity> > > <...this is taking a while...> > ^C > root@liquid# ls > ls: Command not found. > <...OH SH^&!> I'm sorry, but how should that happen? rm _never_ follows symbolic links (it even doesn't have an option to do so), so how could deleting .* in some subdirectory affect the contents of /bin? Or did you actually type /* (which is quite possible on a US/UK-style keyboard)? Or is it just one of that "urban legends"? Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
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