Re: [rm -rf *] how does recursive work?

[Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>]

Bob Dog <bobdog@drunk.co.nz> writes:

> I hate to admit that I did something so incredibly
> mind-bogglingly stupid, but, I accidently did a
> rm -rf on /. This was on a Alpha Unix 5.0 machine
> but it is very BSD like in its behaviour. I instantly
> hit Ctrl-C as fast as I could. I looked everything

My errrr friend when he was a young sysadmin typed 'rm -rf *' in /
thinking it was /tmp on a Sparc 5 Solaris 2.4 machine which was a
production web server.  He hit ^C really fast, nearly suffered a heart
attack but the Sun was fine and no files were lost.

-- 
1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk

the difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter
regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not
been caught.  -- henry l. mencken