Re: Thought I'd throw this in ;-) for the sake of conversation.

[Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>]

Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> stephane richard wrote:
> 
>> a.. Unix:
>>       % ls foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
>>       % rm *.o  rm:.o: No such file or directory
>>       % ls
>>       %
> 
> Someone has screwed up that one, including removing the space that 
> constituted the actual shot in the foot. It's supposed to look like this:
> 
>    % ls
>    foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
>    % rm * .o
>    rm: .o: No such file or directory
>    % ls
>    %

And in fact, a fellow student at my university did precisely this. I had 
the unfortunate task of telling her that all her coursework for the last 
two weeks was gone. Luckily she got it back (from systems daily backup), 
but lost a day's work all the same.

And people still ask me, in querulous tones, why I hate Unix so much.

-- 
Nick Roberts