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Article #4321Re: Delete All Your Files
From: mon... Steve Monson
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 1990 13:10
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 1990 13:10
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In article <FagVo...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz> d...@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
>I love the way AmigaDOS lets you wipe out all your work with a single
>misplaced space. Consider:
>
> delete #?.o
>vs
> delete #? .o
Ah yessss... There are many places where syntactic near-misses are still valid
commands. Like the time I wanted to copy a couple of files from a friend's
directory to mine. Using C-Shell, my command was intended to be
cp friend/{a,b} .
but my finger slipped and missed the "." so what I actually typed was
expanded to
cp friend/a friend/b
and my friend's "b" file was replaced by his "a" file. Luckily, it wasn't too
hard to reconstruct "b", but it did encourage him to reset his umask to 002
so others couldn't write to his files.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!apple!amdcad!mozart.amd.com!diablo!monson From: mon...@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files Keywords: Dumb Typing Tricks Message-ID: <1990Sep2.131022.24375@mozart.amd.com> Date: 2 Sep 90 13:10:22 GMT Sender: use...@mozart.amd.com (Usenet News) Reply-To: mon...@diablo.AMD.COM (Steve Monson) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 22 Posted: Sun Sep 2 14:10:22 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit