[TriLUG] A funny thing happened

[Brent Verner]

[2002-01-25 14:58] M. Mueller (bhu5nji) said:
| 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.

If you wipe out your ~, just do this instead of reinstalling.

bash$ cd ~
bash$ cp /etc/skel/* .

hth.
  b

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