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, 09 Sep 2011 05:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Juan Carlos Añorga http://www.squarefree.com/2003/08/07/five-things-not-to-do-at-the-command-line/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Juan Carlos Añorga Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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-page-1/#comment-5 Old time unix hacker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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-page-1/#comment-6 joe Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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-page-1/#comment-7 Jesse Ruderman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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-page-1/#comment-8 Jesse Ruderman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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-page-1/#comment-9 Nilson Cain Wed, 30 Nov -0001 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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