I did almost the same thing, except someone created a symlink named "" (just an asterisk). I "ln -l"'d the current directory, saw the weird broken symlink, and

I did almost the same thing, except someone created a symlink named "" (just an asterisk). I "ln -l"'d the current directory, saw the weird broken symlink, and without thinking did "rm ". The slow motion double take immediately after hitting enter was like a shot from a movie. "NOOOOOO!".