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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <johnson@quark.analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Everything gone!
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:04:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030319160437.GA22939@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0303191041370.27397@quark.analogic.com>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Hello.
> I log to new account of RedHat 8.0 and do
> cd /
> for x in `find . -name "*"` ; do /bin/rm $x; done
> See I am UNIX Expert NO?
> 
> After, I cant log in?
> How do get back all after /?

Hmmm.
rm -rf *
Should do the same(*) but with much better speed.

Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it.




*: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or
"/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted.




Bis denn

-- 
Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as 
bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, 
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-19 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-19 15:46 Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:33   ` John Jasen
2003-03-19 17:50     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 17:55     ` Jesse Pollard
2003-03-19 18:12       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-20  2:04         ` Joshua Kwan
2003-03-19 21:18   ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-03-19 16:04 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2003-03-19 16:21   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 16:37   ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 16:51     ` Eli Carter
2003-03-19 17:12       ` Xavier Bestel
2003-03-19 17:01     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-19 18:23       ` Eric Weigle
2003-03-19 18:32         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-20  8:57       ` Sean Neakums

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