[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[David Collier-Brown]

The followup discussion sounded doubtful, and the author is probably 
thinking of very old GCOS systems, where rm really could mean rm * for 
the (temp) files in your login session.

--dave

On 15/04/16 12:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Stephen <stephen-d at rogers.com>
>
> | http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-deletes-entire-company-running-bad-line-code-article-1.2601239?cid=msn
>
> About "rm -rf", the article says:
>
> 	The code usually deleted specific parts of a server or
> 	computer, but because this code didn't have a specified
> 	target, it deleted everything.
>
> This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.
>
> The story does not ring true for other reasons.  But it could be.
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