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Article #4320Re: Delete All Your Files
From: w... wd
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 06:33
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 06:33
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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
->("#?" is a match-all wildcard, like "*"). I presume other OSs do the
->same.
I'm sure you will detect 99.9% of all typos just the moment when you
hit the <RETURN> key. Once I *did* see my mistake *after* hitting it:
-> rm - i *
rm: - non-existent
rm: i non-existent
What a simple little space can do ...
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!pcsbst!samsa!wd From: w...@samsa.pcs.com (wd) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files Message-ID: <818@pcsbst.pcs.com> Date: 4 Sep 90 06:33:39 GMT References: <1416.26e0e8fc@waikato.ac.nz> <FagVo1w162w@zl2tnm.gp.govt.nz> Sender: ne...@pcsbst.pcs.com Lines: 26 Posted: Tue Sep 4 07:33:39 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit