Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!world!news.bu.edu!vampyr From: vampyr@bu.edu (Eamon Daly) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: ssc.sco.com Date: 5 Apr 1995 17:48:48 GMT Message-ID: <3lul60$2g2@news.bu.edu> i've just destroyed nearly one half of the data on a 2.1 gig hard drive due to a perl script gone horribly awry. however, having the freedom to run: find / -name * -exec rm {} \; was incredibly therapeutic. it's fun to force sco to explicitly /look/ for each file before it destroys itself. much like forcing your struggling victim to hold the garrote while you pull. -- "does the fun ever start?" -kelly gillen bacon number: 3