Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work? by tilt_error on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:12PM (#7145644)

  # cd /etc
  # emacs inetd.conf
  # ls
  ...
  ... inetd.conf
  ... inetd.conf~
  ...
  # rm * ~
  # ls
  # ls

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work? by yankoff on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:46PM (#7146731)

Man, for some reason that double 'ls' made me laugh for 5 minutes. Just tried to imagine the surprised look on your face.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work? by jonalmeida on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:25PM (#7147535)

irl, that would have been:

  $ ls
  $ sleep 5
  $ ls

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work? by binarygrizzly on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:15PM (#7147468)

I did something similar once. Always be careful with rm and the star. Don't let him get away from its character neighbours.

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