Fun with *
Obnoxious Math Grad Student
weemba at garnet.berkeley.edu
Sat Nov 19 20:13:40 AEST 1988
In article <564 at comdesign.CDI.COM>, pst at canary (Paul Traina) writes:
>However, 'rm -f * .o' means do it, yes I mean it, don't ask stupid
>questions. I would use it in a shell script no doubt. Now of course,
>it's pretty unlikely that's what I meant.
And while you're at it, don't forget the problem of the lexicograph-
ically first file being named "-f".
You know. That could make for a cutesy pie variant of the Morris worm.
Just deposit "innocent" files named "-x" for various values of `x' in
random directories. Confuse and annoy the hell out of people for a few
minutes whenever they type * as part of a command.
This game won't work with "<name" and ">name" though. Awwww.
ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
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