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From: cdash@boulder.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: more rm insanity
Message-ID: <1257@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 11:48:21 EST
Article-I.D.: boulder.1257
Posted: Wed Nov 25 11:48:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 02:48:50 EST
Reply-To: cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Charles Shub)
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Summary: it's not always your fault

yesterday, i got bit by rm. I was remotely logged in to a system over a network
and had created a bunch of temp files. to delete them, i naturally typed in
"rm t*" only the %$*#&^#@ network managed to drop the "t" and you all know what
happened then. It wasn't too bad because with the archiving we do it was only 2
hours to get them back. Of course yeaterday's changes got lost and had to be
redone. The point is that there are two things a command interface could do:
  1) protect us from our own stupidity (i'm not convinced it should)
  2) protect us from "extended system" errors like dropping a character
but i'm not sure how you separate the two.
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