On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:33:40 -0800 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> suppose you are typing > > rm -r /somepath/.somecorruptedconfigdir -f > > and at the point where you have typed > > rm -r / > > The cat jumps up to get your attention and lands a paw on <Enter>. Here's one I did many years ago on a SunOS box (as root), thinking it would delete only the path/.<whatever> files/directories: cd somepath rm -rf .* Civileme or anyone else, the next time you have a system that's about to be re-installed anyway, umount everything but the / and /usr partitions and try: rm -rf /root/.* I'm hoping today's rm does not follow ".."; but it would be nice to know for sure after all those years since I had to re-install that old Sparc... I've made a note to try this when 8.3/9.0 becomes available; but... :^) Pierre
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