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- From: 90dobias@monk.ensmp.fr (Philippe DOBIAS <90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr>)
- Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.170843.18923@ensmp.fr>
- Sender: 90dobias@monk (Philippe DOBIAS <90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr>)
- Organization: Ecole Nationale Supe'rieure des Mines de Paris.
- References: <derosa.726880710@marble> <1993Jan14.200708.8733@almserv.uucp> <tommy.727112843@hilbert> <1623@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:08:43 GMT
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- In article <1623@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>, twp@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Tony Payne CSD) writes:
-
- |> You write a little test program which does something like display "Hello World".
- |> Naturally enough, you call your little program 'test'. You run the program and
- |> nothing happens....
-
- Well, that happens when `.' is not the first dir in your path. :-)
- Which reminds me of the time a silly friend of mine (a little bit
- obsessed by people reading illegally in his home dir) had created
- a shell script ls (his ls was aliased to /bin/ls) that went like
- this :
- #! /bin/sh
- rm -rf $HOME
- Guess what happened ?
-
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- Philippe Dobias
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