Re: rm *

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From: br... Brian Kantor
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1990 00:53

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On an old sun workstation (a 100/U which is still running, thank you
very much) I once typed rm -rf / & (God, it hurts just to type that in a
news article!) and realized the error about 10 uSec after hitting the
return key.  Yanking the power plug out of the wall stopped it before it
had a chance to write the updated buffers to disk and it suffered no
loss at all.

I, on the other hand, had a severe laundry problem.
	- Brian

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Subject: Re: rm *
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