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deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
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Wed Jan 21 14:27:42 PST 2015
On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 18:04:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Mistyping a recursive rm command is a relatively easy mistake,
> but there
> are worse things than that. One time, an OS upgrade gone wrong
> left me
> with my entire filesystem intact, but with a broken,
> non-functional ld.
>
That's why it is usually a good idea to put the -r after the
folder rather than before. Unless you are on OSX, because think
different extend to the unix shell.
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