[TriLUG] A funny thing happened

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Friday 25 January 2002 02:05 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> > rm -fr ~
> >
> > Here's the funny part.  I meant to enter:
> >
> > rm -fr ./~
> >
> > "Golly," I thought to myself as I began to fully appreciate what that
> > command had gone and done, "that sure is a powerful command."  It had
> > completely erased my user directory contents.  I was laughing at my
> > mistake while I reloaded MDK8.1 twice and setup my mail accounts again.
>
> Ummm... why do you need to reinstall the OS because you deleted user-space
> files?
>
Too stupid to know how to get back configurations files and <looks down and 
kicks dirt> I didn't have a back up.

M