Encounter with Noobs !!!!
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Unix n00b story:
During some training we were using Unix to do all our stuffs. It was module-by-module training cum project (final project built from all the previous modules)
In vi editor we normally have the habit of saving using "wq!" - (the ! for forced quit)
And by slip of finger my friend typed "wq~" in vi - and hence got a file named ~ (tilde)
Later since that file (~) was unnecessary, he deleted that by the command "rm -f ~"
Well guess what - he just deleted his home directory and all the contents in it (that was 2 months project stuffs without any backup, thats too just 4 days before the final)
During some training we were using Unix to do all our stuffs. It was module-by-module training cum project (final project built from all the previous modules)
In vi editor we normally have the habit of saving using "wq!" - (the ! for forced quit)
And by slip of finger my friend typed "wq~" in vi - and hence got a file named ~ (tilde)
Later since that file (~) was unnecessary, he deleted that by the command "rm -f ~"
Well guess what - he just deleted his home directory and all the contents in it (that was 2 months project stuffs without any backup, thats too just 4 days before the final)
mehrotra.akash
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mathrisk said:Unix n00b story:
During some training we were using Unix to do all our stuffs. It was module-by-module training cum project (final project built from all the previous modules)
In vi editor we normally have the habit of saving using "wq!" - (the ! for forced quit)
And by slip of finger my friend typed "wq~" in vi - and hence got a file named ~ (tilde)
Later since that file (~) was unnecessary, he deleted that by the command "rm -f ~"
Well guess what - he just deleted his home directory and all the contents in it (that was 2 months project stuffs without any backup, thats too just 4 days before the final)
Dont you need rm -rf ~ for that?
mehrotra.akash said:
You need to escape character the ~ (tilde).
So the delete command should be as "rm -f \~"
edit:
Ooops got you wrong.
Yeah -r should be there.
Actually we had some aliases already set into .profile at the time we get our own login in the server.
The actual command he used was "rmf ~" - here rmf was the alias (I don't remember if it had -r option, but I guess it had)
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