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From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 04:13

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Anybody else ever intend to type

   % rm *.o

but failed to release the shift key quite quick enough
after typing the star?

Result:

  % rm *>o

You've got one new empty file called "o", but plenty of room for it!

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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: rm *
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Date: 9 Jan 90 04:13:18 GMT
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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