"Even experienced UNIX users occasionally enter rm *.* at the UNIX
prompt only to realize too late that they have removed the wrong
segment of the directory structure." - Microsoft WSS whitepaper
I find that particularly amusing because I can't recall ever running
"rm *.*" even deliberately; removing everything with a dot in its name
and nothing else is...not a common operation for me. (Now, if they'd
said "rm -f *".... :-)
Right. And they didn't they, it's a common operation. They say it's an
*occasional* operation. Personally, neither "never" nor "occasional"
fits to me. "extremely rarely" fits to me. :)