Simon Baker <Simon.Baker@ukerna.ac.uk>  wrote:
 > On a more humourous note, how many people on this list would admit to 
 > doing rm -rf .* ???

I would. big deal.


[lager a 565 ]; rm -rf .*
rm: "." and ".." may not be removed
[lager a 566 ]; ls -al
total 3
drwx------  3 hpeyerl  wheel  512 Apr 22 10:05 ./
drwxrwxrwt  3 root     wheel  512 Apr 22 10:05 ../
drwx------  4 hpeyerl  wheel  512 Apr 22 10:04 b/
-rw-------  1 hpeyerl  wheel    0 Apr 22 10:05 bar
-rw-------  1 hpeyerl  wheel    0 Apr 22 10:05 foo