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		jqm on April 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Suicide Linux (2011) rm . * (extra space) has gotten me a few times. I bet I'm not the only one either.

krylon on April 19, 2015 [–]

I once wanted to delete backup files left by emacs in the current directory. Instead of

  rm -rf *~

I typed

  rm -rf * ~

At least I learnt to use -rf more carefully. Way more carefully.

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