[plug] Re: Backups

[Craig Ringer]

> | bklaptop:~>rm -r temp/ *
> | instead of
> | bklaptop:~>rm -r temp/*
> | 
> | That hurts, but it's a good way of cleaning out your homedir..
> 
> Ouch.  Never actually killed an entire home directory like that - the
> worst I've managed was ~1500 digital camera photos; fortunately the ones
> which hadn't been backed up were still on the camera! :-)

Just try 'rm -rf /<bumps enter key>' while working as root. I haven't 
done it, but I've seen it done and I've made stuffups of related nature 
but lesser magnitude. I now usually use 'rm -ir $FILES -f' to avoid that 
particular horror.

Craig Ringer

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