extreme newbie

[Mike Meyer]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
> Under Unix it's not all that hard to accidentally create files
> like that. Sometimes you have to resort to blasting them away
> by i-node number, or by moving the files you want to keep and
> then nuking the directory.

A standard practice on our early Unix system at the university was to
issue the command '% touch "$HOME/*"; clear' on any terminals found
unattended. But we were a nasty bunch.

        <mike
-- 
Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information.