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From: alec.muffett@gmail.com (Alec Muffett)
Subject: [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:48:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFWeb9K_173PJpm4Rzt_JMt56ZQxQ9Smsg5+kY_DiHfJyifxPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170424214212.GA4966@naleco.com>

Off-topic but funny: I have personally witnessed a 4.1BSD Vax where someone
accidentally did "mv . .." (or possibly "mv .. .") and it worked, with
resulting horrible mess.

    -a
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-24 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-24 21:42 Josh Good
2017-04-24 21:48 ` Alec Muffett [this message]
2017-04-24 21:59   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-04-24 22:10 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-24 22:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-04-24 22:18 ` Josh Good
2017-04-24 23:23   ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25  0:06     ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-25  0:18       ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25  0:22         ` ron minnich
2017-04-25  0:24           ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25  0:26             ` ron minnich
2017-04-25  0:59 Noel Chiappa
2017-04-25  1:34 Noel Chiappa

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