On Sunday 01 August 2004 09:44 pm, William Ballard wrote: > I found a whole new way to screw up today, but I bet it's in some list > somewhere: > > Instead of: > > pipe-command args | /pipe/to/command > pipe-command args > /pipe/to/command > > I did it on Win32, so the dir was writable. Boom. Instantly clobber > the executable, restore from backup.
Running Win32 was probably your first mistake. :) Reminds me of the time I did a DEL *.* in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND by accident one day. Oops. Which brings up another thing. Juha was talking about doing an rm -rf * in the wrong xterm... Well, one of the first things I did in Linux was show off for my wife how Linux has file permissions that prevent ordinary users from doing stupid things (like running DEL *.* in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND :). So I did a little cd /&&rm -rf * and showed her the impressive stream of permission denied messages. Until it iterated into /home. Oops. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
