Comments on: The rm -r / typo http://blog.affien.com/archives/2006/07/27/the-rm-r-typo/ A few thoughts Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:24:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: guttersnipe http://blog.affien.com/archives/2006/07/27/the-rm-r-typo/comment-page-1/#comment-152841 guttersnipe Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:13:56 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2006/07/27/the-rm-r-typo/#comment-152841 I did almost the exact same thing once. Except mine was a command like: mv ./* /some/other/location/ I wasn't aware I was in the root directory at the time. Problem was that I couldn't move it back on the account that it had moved the mv command. I couldn't use it at it's new location for whatever reason, eventually I downloaded a move command off the internet, put it on that machine, and put everything back to where it needed to be. Yes, gotta love linux. :-D I did almost the exact same thing once. Except mine was a command like:

mv ./* /some/other/location/

I wasn’t aware I was in the root directory at the time. Problem was that I couldn’t move it back on the account that it had moved the mv command. I couldn’t use it at it’s new location for whatever reason, eventually I downloaded a move command off the internet, put it on that machine, and put everything back to where it needed to be.

Yes, gotta love linux. :-D

]]> By: noud@w-nz.com http://blog.affien.com/archives/2006/07/27/the-rm-r-typo/comment-page-1/#comment-81396 noud@w-nz.com Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:28:22 +0000 http://blog.w-nz.com/archives/2006/07/27/the-rm-r-typo/#comment-81396 haha, lol... i always thought the remove tool had some kind of safety device when you would remove the root. Gues not. :-/ haha, lol… i always thought the remove tool had some kind of safety device when you would remove the root. Gues not. :-/

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