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rm is not like explorer.exe and is rather fast with destruction, so I guess you must have deleted some dotfiles.
by garaetjjte 6y ago
rm is not like explorer.exe and is rather fast with destruction, so I guess you must have deleted some dotfiles.
- rectang 6y agoCould be. This was on a Mac, around 2013, so it should have been pretty snappy. Whatever it got I never noticed. Maybe it was trawling through a bunch of build detritus in `~/.cpan` or something.
- andrewmackrodt 6y agoI accidentally did the same on my Mac via a shell script where I assumed mktemp worked the same as gnu mktemp, it does not. IIRC it was my /Applications directory that was first to be hit; most of the directory was unaffected due to file permissions but it did delete some files despite me catching thee error and sending sigkill within seconds.