From: Andy Parkins Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:13:52 GMT Subject: Re: OT: data destruction classics (was: Re: Error converting from 1.4.4.1 to 1.5.0?) Message-ID: <200702150914.01361.andyparkins@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45D3B4E7.8050408@fs.ei.tum.de> On Thursday 2007 February 15 01:18, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > > I'm still muttering to myself that I could be that dumb... 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 -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com