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- Subject: Re: You know you've been staring at Lua code too long when...
- From: Paige DePol <lual@...>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:35:41 -0500
Elias Barrionovo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Paige DePol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This brings back terrible nightmares about the use of 'sudo' and the 'rm'
>> command, along with an errant space, way back in my early Linux days.
>
>
> What, just like [1] and [2]?
>
> [1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
> [2] https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Yes, almost exactly the error in [1]... omg, the error in [2] is just
horrible, who even writes code like that?!
Well, Valve, apparently. LoL. But seriously, whomever typed:
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*
without realising what would happen if $STEAMROOT was empty, and not
performing any sort of sanity checks... all I can do is shake my head.
~pmd
