Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!laura!jf
From: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bug in rm -r
Message-ID: <1363@laura.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 15:25:10 GMT
References: <1152@psueea.UUCP> <1989May9.174405.727@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: jf@laura.UUCP (Jan-Hinrich Fessel)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <1989May9.174405.727@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>	$ rm -r ../hostmgr
>
>One obvious potential trouble spot is accidentally typing a space between
>the ".." and the rest...
You hear manical laughter nearby...

even with no blanks between .. and the rest tghis works the way nobody wants
it to work...

	Jan-Hinrich
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			      Jan-Hinrich Fessel
	Universitaet Dortmund, IRB	jf@unido.uucp  ||  jf@unido.bitnet
	There's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day... F.Z.
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