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Re: Delete All Your Files

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From: mon... Steve Monson
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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From: mon...@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson)
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Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files
Keywords: Dumb Typing Tricks
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Date: 2 Sep 90 13:10:22 GMT
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