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oh my god. i've rm'd (from unix on OSX) half of my MacOS 9 partition. that has to be the dumbest thing i've ever done. i'm half in shock right now.

All I was trying to do was work out how to umount something, and... oh no excuses. back to UNIX beginners school for me. shit shit shit.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

mock me, don't ph34r me

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

could be worse, could have been rm -rf

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't even recall now. but i can't explain where everything's gone unless i did -rf it! i don't recall the r, i remember the f. oh sweet mother of linus

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Alan.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm sorry, that was mean. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry, utter bastard. (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't worry Alang, I did a sudo rm /* and spent my first week at university trying to reinstall from a fatally scratched CD.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

is there a spool of the shell history somewhere, i want to know for sure just how bloody dense i am.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

This will teach you to poke around where you shouldn't. Use the pretty icons like everyone else.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in the day (before windows) I managed to do:
del c:*.* /s
Are you sure?
Y!!!

On My dads office PC, boy was he pleased!

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

What were you hoping to do and what does the /s bit do?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i know nothing about any of this stuff

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

alan

if you're using bash then .bash_history in your home directory. can't remember sh equivalent although the history command should show you, limited to last 50 entries though, or something (definable)

(nick, /s is 'include subdirectories')

andy

― koogs, Thursday, 19 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, the /s include subdirectories (delete absolutely everything? Are you sure? Oh yes I'm quite sure!).
I was trying to delete a particular directory, just forgot to put that bit in.
After that I learnt to stick with the pretty icons...

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you do something like that so we can get rid of N., alan?

― david h (david h), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

That wouldn't be very nice now, would it. N is a nice mang.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, but...

― david h (david h), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know...

― david h (david h), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Like...

― david h (david h), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Y'know...

― david h (david h), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm four square behind that man. Nick's arrogance has reached fever pitch over the last couple of weeks. Banish him say I.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

What have I done now?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 September 2002 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

rm N* might catch one or two innocent victims too, but it's a small price to pay, eh Ned? There is a nice "don't bother to ask me to confirm - I know what I'm doing, honest" switch in Unix, but I don't remember what it is offhand.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

rm -fr this thread

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

DELETE FROM messages WHERE name rlike '(N.|Nick|Nick Dastoor)';

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

but it's a small price to pay, eh Ned?

Well I...hey!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh "rlike"...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

graham just fdisked bnw!!!

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

What is this thread about? </the pinefox>

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone else read that SQL query in FatNick speak?

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

David, we've only just got rid of N., I don't see why you lot up there shouldn't put up with him for a bit longer.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 September 2002 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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