OT: the rm bug hit me again

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Tue Oct 24 23:50:33 UTC 2006


 	I alomst hate to admit it but the rm bug bit me for the second 
time in my life over the weekend.  The first time was back, oh, late '94 I 
think.  But everyone gets bit by this at least once in their *NIX career. 
But my braindead brain was cleaning out some redundant gunk in /usr/lib 
(like all the versions of firefox and mozilla laying around).  You know 
what's coming...

# cd /usr/lib
# rm -fR mozilla *
                 ^-------- There was supposed to be a "." there.

I caught it quickly but not before it whacked some GNOME junk (what the 
heck is a bonobo?).

 	Oh well, guess it was my turn to play "crusty old phart who does 
stupid newbie move" today.  :-)

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