Shells (was: Re: [techtalk] PCI Utilities)

[Laurel Fan]

Excerpts from linuxchix: 30-Sep-99 Re: [techtalk] PCI Utilities by Nils
Philippsen at wombat.d 
> It's completely irrelevant from what shell you issue commands, as long as
> the particular command is no shell-builtin.

Usually... unless it's a strange shell, or it has metacharacters in
it...  At some point, someone here thought it would be amusing to put
files named "-rf ~*" in /tmp, hoping that someone would attempt to rm it
with "rm -rf ~*" and delete their home directory.


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