Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:04:37 +0100 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: Everything gone! |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Hello. > I log to new account of RedHat 8.0 and do > cd / > for x in `find . -name "*"` ; do /bin/rm $x; done > See I am UNIX Expert NO? > > After, I cant log in? > How do get back all after /?
Hmmm. rm -rf * Should do the same(*) but with much better speed.
Normaly the system should lockup at sometime while doing it.
*: OK. The version above will "break" in the middle after "/bin/rm" (or "/lib/libc.so.6") got deleted.
Bis denn
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