[GTALUG] Man deletes his entire company

[Kevin Cozens]

On 16-04-16 09:34 PM, Paul King wrote:
> Maybe he was using Windows PowerShell, which has adopted a lot of UNIX-isms
> including  "rm" with recursive and force options. If it behaves anything like
> DEL with recursive and force options, it will traverse UPWARDS as well as
> DOWNWARDS in a directory tree (having been burned by that behaviour first-hand
> a few years ago).

Can't you just picture Microsoft implementing "rm -r" so that it also does 
upward recursion as well as downward? That would burn a lot of people.

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