On 16/03/17 23:56, David Haller wrote:
Ooooch mennooo! That takes out all the fun!
Hasn't it been the lore, that if you've not once accidentally run 'rm -rf /' or at least 'rm -rf ~', you're no UNIX/Linux guy?
:-) I remember having to recover one of our user's home directory once. COPY <SYS181>DEBBIE>FILE <RAB191>DEBBIE iirc. The system came back with "you are about to overwrite a directory with a file. Continue?", and, not thinking or rather thinking "but of course I want to copy that file into my home directory" she hit "yes". One home directory deleted. Unlike on nix, the Pr1mos COPY command always made an exact copy of the first argument, called the second argument. And (enforced by the OS), the command expansion prompted by default if it thought the command was dangerous eg as here overwriting a directory. She should have had second thoughts at the mere existence of the warning. I still think the Pr1mos shell was much better than nix, but hey ho... Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org