[room] Fwd: [nixCraft: Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog Format] New Comment On: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

[Michael Shigorin]

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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:46:41 +0000
Subject: [nixCraft: Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog Format] New Comment On: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes

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Author: Moataz Elmasry
Comment:
Did the following in a script

[ -d ${MY_DIR} ] && rm -rf ${MY_DIR}/*

${MY_DIR} was not defined at all and it turned out, that [ -d ] returns true, so the command 
rm -rf /* 
has been executed

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