Especially by HP consultants at the end of a 13 hour day setting up Service Guard. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Spears, Brian Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:59 PM To: jkstill@xxxxxxxxx; nigel.tufnel1@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: OT moment of doubt Another neat FAT finger is rm -R ./dir but types in rm -R . /dir (activated at the root level) ..its been done a few times I have heard. =20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:25 PM To: nigel.tufnel1@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: OT moment of doubt Every time I do it. When using a command like that, I usually check it with ls first, then modify the command. eg. ls -l *.dbf If that gets the expected results, I will then call up the command line history and replace the 'ls -l'=20 with 'rm -f'. This not only ensures the results are what I expect, but avoids fat fingering that occur if the entire command is retyped: eg. rm -f * .dbf Notice the space between * and .dbf. Jared On 6/15/05, Joe <nigel.tufnel1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > What would you call that moment in time after you do "rm *.dbf" on all > your database files, where you suddenly panic about whther you're on=20 > the right server or not? >=20 > This happens to me all the time, even after checking, even after 17=20 > yrs of DBA-ing. Kinda like that feeling you get when your chair starts > to tip over backwards but you catch yourself. >=20 > :P >=20 > Joe > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >=20 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l