[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Scott Allen]

On 15 April 2016 at 12:47, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
> This isn't true of the rm(1) command.  No operand means delete nothing.

The following article gives more specifics:
<http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html>

The script actually contained
rm -rf {foo}/{bar}

The error caused foo and bar to be null so the result was
rm -rf /

-- 
Scott