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Re: [tlug] The Mother of All (bash) Commands
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:28:05 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Joe Larabell <fred62@example.com>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] The Mother of All (bash) Commands
- References: <op.t756gdbtp3esx5@mail.gol.com> <200803171322.13584.daniel.ramaley@drake.edu> <20080317210112.T39931@isris.pair.com> <200803180822.19747.daniel.ramaley@drake.edu>
(Yes, I did that once without thinking. It resulted in a tree full of zero-length files -- with permissions properly preserved. Besides, if both paths are on the same machine, doesn't 'cp -a' do just as well?)
Ouch. Did you have backups?
Yes... not entirely current but it only took me a day to recover. Of course, it also took quite a while to figure out what had happened.
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http://larabell.org for thou art crunchy
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