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technofiend on Oct 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, th...

I hear you. The very first system Unix system I had root to ended up with two etc directories. It took a really long time to figure out I hadn't corrupted the filesystem but instead had created one directory named /etc<DEL> which was an unprintable character.

anon9001 on Oct 24, 2019 [–]

`mkdir -- "$(echo "-rf \u2215")"` is a fun one for someone else to anxiously rm later ;)

technofiend on Oct 24, 2019 | [–]

Lol. The lessons I learned about ls -lq, ls -li and find -inum have stuck with me since then, though.

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