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Re:Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. super... by thaumasiotes on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:35AM (#29736210)
> I guess this is as good of a time as any other to remind people to use the "unofficial" Bash strict mode

Not really; the report doesn't mention any error in the script.

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Re:Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. super... by leoh on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:02AM (#29736362)
There is a reading which suggests that an environment variable being unset caused an overabundance of files being deleted. `set -u` causes the script to exit if any variables are unset.
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