Thread: Calibre just destroyed my hard drive data
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Old 05-04-2011, 07:41 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
The first time I saw something like this was in 1975 at Berkeley. A student typed "rm -rf ." in his home directory, then went ballistic when all his files were deleted.
You haven't lived till you've typed "rm -rf .*" as super user - because ".." matches that pattern....
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