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mon...@diablo.amd.com (Steve Monson) writes:

>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.

My "favourite" in this line is in vi (or other unix editor):

:!rm tmp
:!ll *.c

If when typing the above sequence you see the following message:

	tmpll: not found

you know you have just wiped out your source.  I am so used to
repeating commands with !! that I sometimes double the !
accidentally.  (ll is an alias or shell script for ls -l.)

David Powers