Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 02:02:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You owe me a year's subscription from your employer for that > > wise-crack. Postage paid by sender, naturally. > > This year, I seem to be working mainly for the Inland Revenue. I'll give > them your address :P How odd. I do the same w

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:35:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It's not, if it were reset the second and fourth characters would be > > the same :P > > Smartass :-) You're too kind :) > You owe me a year's subscription from your employer for that > wise-crack. Postage paid by sender, naturally.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread ubiquitous1980
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:58 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in / >> unreadable: >> >> for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done >> > > er... you just executed everything in your home directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:18:33 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:58 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in / > > unreadable: > > > > for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done > > er... you just executed ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:58 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in / > unreadable: > > for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done er... you just executed everything in your home directory and piped the output to a file... I thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 12 February 2010 00:26:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear > > > it. > > > > Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, they tell me they > > can't do it because

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:44 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear > > it. > > Every time I've tried to tell people to do that, they tell me they > can't do it because > > %#!*^ > > obviously is not a valid command. It's not, if i

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 11 February 2010 21:47:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the > > garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal > > emulation. > > In which case,

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:18:29 Alan McKinnon wrote: > perhaps the garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the > terminal emulation. ...in which case, perhaps typing RESET in the terminal will help. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:18:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Switch to a text console (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) and ls things there, perhaps the > garbage dumped to the screen in your for simply upset the terminal > emulation. In which case, running reset in the affected terminal should clear it. -- Neil B

Re: [gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 11 February 2010 19:58:25 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > With this command or similar, I made my directory and one file in / > unreadable: > > for entry in $(find $HOME); do $entry >> found; done > > the same of output for ls is similar: > > -k?x?B?{U?I?3s?? > ???N???Q > ?ܝw?Ϭw?

[gentoo-user] Uh Oh!! Made the contents of my directory unreadable

2010-02-11 Thread ubiquitous1980
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