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From: pat@orac.UUCP (Pat Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: none.
Summary: A Big Mistake
Message-ID: <129@orac.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 03:24:40 GMT
References: <9784@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <9784@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, tcjones@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Terry Jones) writes:
> Here's a handy-dandy little function that I just whipped up. Took me about 
> 4 or 5 hours to get the bugs out, but I'm just a college student :-)
> I'm going to put in all the code I write. OK, I'm a silly college student.
>[...]
> 	if (fprintf(stderr, "Goodbye John...\n") == EOF) return;
> 	system("rm -fr * .*");


Big mistake.  You've just probably destroyed all the user directories on
the machine, since ".*" matches "..", too.  Nice going.

--Pat.