rm -r during my first internship, shortly followed by the wonders of tar -xvf as I worked desperately to restore the lost directories from backup before my manager got back from lunch =).I have done Unix sysdamin for many, many years and one thing I did when I needed to do the “rm” command is I would do a “ls” on the path to see what I going to irrevocably remove before dong and “rm” command. Thanks to “bash” shell, I could go back to the “ls” command and then backspace and replace “ls” with “rm”.
The parent thread mentioned about operating systems, I have used many different one’s over the years. I want to add in OpenBSD, NetBSD, Windows/DOS and Mac OS X which also uses a BSD baseline kernel.
> Yeah, I remember learning the power of rm -r