Hi!

Mine was more of an "oh oh" moment... when, back in 1994, I needed to clean up /tmp on the company Data General Aviion that I was administering... and I typed "sudo rm -rf /tmp /*"

Notice the involuntary space between /tmp and /* ... hence the "oh oh..." moment when I started seeing this take long... and when I typed Ctrl-C and started seeing some things like "/bin/ls not found" when I looked for the files in / ...

Gilles

Le ven. 11 oct. 2019 à 00:55, Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> a écrit :

All, we had another dozen TUHS suscribers to the list overnight. Welcome.
A reminder that we're here to discuss Unix Heritage, so I'll nudge you
if the conversation goes a bit off-topic.

So I'll kick off another thread. What was your "ahah" moment when you
first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems you'd
previously used?

Mine was: Oh, I can:
+ write a simple script
+ to edit a file on the fly
+ with no temporary files (a la pipes)
+ AND I can change the file suffix and the system won't stop me!

I was using TOPS-20 beforehand.

Cheers, Warren