[rescue] Shooting yourself in the foot....

[dave at cca.org]

george at webbastard.org writes:

>ha ha hah hah  ah ahh ah ah ha hah hah ha ha ha!!!!
><ROTFL>
>~~~~
>> Unix: 
>>   % ls
>>   foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
>>   % rm * .o
>>   rm: .o: No such file or directory
>>   % ls
>>   %
>~~~~

>how many times have we all done something like this?  That extra space is a 
>bitch, isn't it...  Hey, at least it wasn't a   .*

Oh yeah. Done that.

Another thing that bugs me - I think it was a really bad idea for
"mv" to also rename files. Ever accidently mistype a destination
directory, and end up moving your file to the directory above the
destination, with a weird typo name? Ever do it in a loop in a shell
script, and wipe out every file but the last one?

------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org -------
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