Sorry but this was not me ! is somebody spoofing my mail address?
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From: Francois Pinard [SMTP:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 1:53 PM
To: psims@lombard.co.uk
Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: `cd XXX ; action' maybe dangerous
"Paul Sims" writes:
# tar cfl - . | ( cd /mnt; tar xfSpB - )
By the way, everybody, take the good habit of routinely writing:
cd DIRECTORY && ACTION ...
instead of:
cd DIRECTORY; ACTION ...
and this, especially when ACTION may be somewhat destructive. If for some
unexpected reason the said DIRECTORY does not exist, you might discover
yourself happy that ACTION gets inhibited.
P.S. - I learned this the hard way, but no need that you do! :-)
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Francois Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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