From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>
Date: 2002-12-08T01:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 23:40, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I was working on the tutorial just now and wanted to delete all the *~
> files.  But instead of typing `rm *~` I typed `rm *` and all the files
> were silently deleted.

I did something similar many years ago.  I typed 'rm * .bak' instead of
'rm *.bak'.  The command deleted all my files and then politely informed
me that there wasn't any file named '.bak'.

I now make it a standard practice to define a script called 'rmbak' that
deletes all the ~, .bak, etc. files.  Therefore I almost never have to
type 'rm' with a '*' anymore.

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-- Jim Weirich     jweirich@one.net    http://w3.one.net/~jweirich
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