On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Simeon Johnston wrote: > > We prefer to be known as the > > foolhardy. > > What are those of us who always use -f? Actually, I go a step farther > with an -rf. > Maybe I'm the fools fool then... > _rm -rf, a sufficiently powerful tool to really shoot your foot off with. I use it to blow away directories because I don't have the time to go through and confirm every blinking write protected file in the directory has to be removed... Only bit me once, when I blew away /etc on a production machine. I was able to recover it (eventually), but it taught me to be *really* careful around a # prompt. > > "I got a bow and arrow and learned to shoot, I got a horn and learned to > toot. Now I can shoot and toot, ain't I cute?" > Name that movie. If you can't, you suck. > I guess I suck. Of course it was probably one of those bletcherous losing mid-90's movies that I never wanted to see anyway. Sounds like one. -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever.