Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2014, Bob Goodwin sent:
Last thing I did was put an audio book on a flash drive. In order to
clear the flash drive I always cd to it and and "rm -fr *". I've been
doing that for the last 8 years, never a problem.
Sounds like you may have changed to the wrong directory. If you
accidentally hit enter after "cd" (so that you just issued the cd
command, without a directory), you'd have changed to your home
directory.
I'm always super cautious with recursive and wildcard deleting, if you
do it badly, you can match on .. and go back *up* the directory tree.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.