Am Sonntag, 3. Januar 2016, 15:53:56 CET schrieben Sie:

[1] Fat-fingering a deletion:  My own brown-bag "I became an admin that 
day" case was running a script, unfortunately as root, that I was 
debugging, where I did an rm -rf $somevar/*, with $somevar assigned 
earlier, only either the somevar in the assignment or the somevar in the 
rm line was typoed, so the var ended up empty and the command ended up as 
rm -rf /*. ...

I was *SO* glad I had a backup, not just a raid1, that day!

Epic.

Thats the one case GNU rm doesn´t cover yet.

It refuses to rm -rf . or rm -rf .. and rm -rf / (unless you give special 
argument, but there is not much it can do about rm -r /*, as the shell expands 
this before handing it to the command.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin