<p dir="ltr">I will admit to doing that once when I first began with Linux. Not a biggie had nothing on that system I wanted. I didn't realize I was in the root directory.  Lesson learned.  Always double check the path :)  </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 15, 2016 12:41 PM, "Alvin Starr" <<a href="mailto:alvin@netvel.net">alvin@netvel.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Most of us have made that same mistake but without the disastrous results.<br>
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"rm -rf" is a very big gun with a hair trigger. So its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it and because its so big you may not just lose your foot but a leg or two.<br>
Sadly this guy was looking down the barrel when he oops'd.<br>
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On 04/15/2016 12:28 PM, Stephen wrote:<br>
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The mind wobbles ....<br>
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<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn</a> <br>
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