Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Toby Inkster wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> -r will not decent to higher-level (parent) diretories
>
> Dammit, typo... "descent".
I let it slide the first time, but if we're going to be picky, you
were after "descend", though I think "ascend" may be more appropriate.
>> rm -rf .*
>> Ouch!
>
> Ouch indeed. I hope you had backups.
I had backups of the contents of everybody's home directories, but much of
the rest of the system was hosed before I realised what was happening
and hit Ctrl+C. (I ran this command as root, I forgot to mention!) Needed
to reinstall and then restore the home directories.
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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