From: Stephan.Lehmke@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Stephan Lehmke) Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [rec.humor.oracle.d] Re: The question was too hard... Date: 30 Mar 1998 08:42:15 GMT Subject: Re: The question was too hard... From: "Roger Strong" Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d Jeffrey Kaplan wrote in message <3529c8f7.14518556@news-f.std.com>... >; If nothing else it will free up some valuable disk space. > >Make that: > > \rm -r * One of my co-workers was on the phone, walking a customer through removing the software for a Star multiport from an NCR Tower. The command was "rm -r star". It took a full fifteen minutes for him to figure out why it was taking so long.....