From: "Steve McClure" <smcclure@usscript.com>
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Subject: RE: major blunders
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:11:41 -0700
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I saw this message earlier this week, and needed to reply.  A long time ago,
in a work place far and away now closed.  I inherited a handful of
databases, and a UNIX cluster from someone who you all are very familiar
with.

A few weeks into my first stint as a DBA and UNIX admin, I was confident
that all I had to do was [ESC-K] twice with vi style command line editor,
and repeat that command I needed.  Well I had forgotten about some minor
cleanup I had done in the mean time.  Two lines up in my history held 
'rm *'

Now the lines preceding that terrible string held all of my pre-delete
precautions...pwd, ls *, pwd, ..I was probably too new to use find.  All in
all I was very careful about that command, and it showed.  However this time
I didn't have a chance to be careful.  Well at least that was what I feared
as my finger depressed the enter key, while I looked on, now with increased
blood pressure.  Then miracle of miracles...I saw a prompt "Are you sure?
Y/N"

After taking several second to make sure I answered that question correctly,
I said a silent thank you to everyone's favorite Perl evangelist.

So Thanks again Jared.  Not only for teaching me about the "touch -i" trick,
but for all of those flags you left behind.


Steve McClure


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