Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:07:28 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: Removing garbage in files system by inode number |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Dale Amon wrote: > Ah and then there is the heart attack inducing > trick we played on a new systems programmer back > in the days of RSX-11m. I think we created a couple > exectable scripts such that he ran one and it appeared > to do the RSX equivalent of rm -rf *, ie pip *.*;*/DE > except that we had also substituted pip in his > search path so it actually moved all his work safely > (and quietly) elsewhere first....
Long ago in a timesharing system far, far away, TOPS-10 PIP would let you create files with arbitrary bit-patterns for names using a funky octal notation. We had some fun speculating on whether anyone in the lab, confronted with a file named *.*, would be dumb enough to enter DEL *.* before realizing what he'd done. :-}
I actually needed this feature on one occasion, when something or other had created a file whose name contained a period. (Not the period separating the name from the extension; this period was *in* the name.)
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Quick! What's the SIXBIT for period?
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