A modern-day Unix-Hater, I am.

[gile]

I officially hate Unix as of now.

judas[~]>: tar -cvf mac.tar
The c should have been a t. For the un-knowing, the t switch lists all the files contained in the archive, whereas c creates a new archive. Even if you don't have any files to put in it, in which case you get a zero-length file.

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Comments

[petef]

Pressing enter means never having to say you're sorry.

Unix is not designed to protect users, it does what it's told. Typos suck, though. Backups rock.

[gile]

Very true, on all points. But that specific behavour is completely brain-dead, from no matter which angle you look at it.

It still doesn't stop me from hating Unix. To be fair, I have yet to find a system I consider truly awesome (BeOS was close... but only close). Looks like I have to build my own :)

[juozasg]

Most sincere sympathies. Such results are indescribably shitty.

[wxs]

That sucks - and illustrates why backups should be on burned off to a CD or placed on tape.

[gile]

I gave away my tape drive long ago, and my CD burner is at the bottom of a big, heavy box right now. So I lose :(

Nothing unrecoverable, but still a huge pain in the ass.