A keystroke away from Doom.

[G. Matthew Rice]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I want to thank Hugh for his inspiring 'War Story' posts. It was those that
> made me think to post this little Gem. What are your worst keystroke
> stories?


During my first job after university, I lost a week worth of work with an
accidental:
        rm *>o

I meant to type:
        rm *.o

but the shift key wasn't released on time.  It only took two of those before
I learned the value of a 'clean' make target.

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G. Matthew Rice <mrice-WHMkLBA7RDE at public.gmane.org>                         gpg id: EF9AAD20
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