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rm -rf /usr/lib

So in another case of tab completion gone wrong I ended up staring at the following on my laptop. johnf@zoot:~/dev/vquence/metrics/trunk$ sudo rm -rf /usr/lib ^C The command only ran for a few seconds so the damage wasn’t to bad, but what did I lose? The locate command came to my rescue. locate runs out of [...]