sometimes i suspect that i'm not as funny as i think i am

[rone]

Nix wrote:

One person at work keeps a file named -i in important directories on Solaris boxes, just to catch rm *'s in them.

Do they keep an extra pair of underpants in their car in case they shit themselves on the way to work?

Comments

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

I know several programmers who probably should... *bangs head on desk, head*

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Pity it wouldn't catch the vast majority of accidental occurences of erroneous 'rm's.

rm -rf foo/* expanding to
rm -rf foo/-i foo/... does not do anything other than remove the crap you were trying to save.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed -- I was referring to the underpants, though! When it comes to things like files named '-i', I lean more towards learning-by-painful-experience than safety-nets-of-dubious-effectiveness.