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deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
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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