Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!hao!boulder!cdash 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 Lines: 13 Xref: utgpu comp.cog-eng:317 comp.unix.wizards:5231 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. -- cdash aka cdash@boulder.colorado.edu aka ...hao!boulder!cdash aka ...nbires!boulder!cdash aka (303) 593-3492