Comments on: Five things not to do at the command line http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/ Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Juan Carlos Añorga http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-4 Juan Carlos Añorga Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-4 Don't forget: find . -delete -name ".*" On some operating systems it will delete all files that start with . including the current directory you are in. Don’t forget:

find . -delete -name “.*”

On some operating systems it will delete all files that start with . including the current directory you are in.

]]> By: Old time unix hacker http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-5 Old time unix hacker Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-5 nohup rm -rf / & nohup rm -rf / &

]]> By: joe http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-6 joe Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-6 Hey, the first two were me! Also, this is the only hit for "east dorm chat" on google. Hey, the first two were me!
Also, this is the only hit for “east dorm chat” on google.

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-7 Jesse Ruderman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-7 I left off the destination in a "cp" command: cp incrementalplot.* Like the "tar czf" command above, this blew away one of my files. Luckily, I hadn't modified incrementalplot.h since getting it from CVS. I left off the destination in a “cp” command:

cp incrementalplot.*

Like the “tar czf” command above, this blew away one of my files.

Luckily, I hadn’t modified incrementalplot.h since getting it from CVS.

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-8 Jesse Ruderman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-8 via Nilson: rm -rf / var/tmp/portage/* via Nilson:

rm -rf / var/tmp/portage/*

]]> By: Nilson Cain http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/#comment-9 Nilson Cain Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/test/wp15/wordpress/?p=2#comment-9 ( . ':"/" .:;) & This should also take out your /. So don't be fumblin' 'round your keyboard! ( . ‘:”/” .:;) &

This should also take out your /.

So don’t be fumblin’ ’round your keyboard!

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