Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?)

On Thursday 2007 February 15 01:18, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

How about this:

1) "I should like to clean up root's home directory"
2) cd /root; ls -la .
3) "Oh, there are a lot of config file in this directory that I don't need any
   more"
4) rm -rf .*

Now start crying softly to yourself, when you realise that ".." is covered by ".*". Now go to every computer you work on and put

  export GLOBIGNORE=".:.."

In your .bashrc.

Boy, was my face red...

Andy