[Techtalk] Great Mistakes I Have Made

[coldfire]

> Because it then started working from its own output file, it died
> partway through. I lost the lot. I hadn't even made a backup!

i had a similar expereince ... can't explain the context in which i issued
such a command, but ... i had done this:

'grep -v "<string>" <filename> > <filename>'

needless to say .. the entire file was nuked.  and let's just say .. bad
practice hehe.


coldie