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BOFH excuse #191 makes no sense

CK

2012-05-31 20:05

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BOFH excuse #191 states:
   Just type 'mv * /dev/null'.
Really? Let's see what happens:
$ ls -lgo foo /dev/null
-rw------- 1 21644 May 24 14:09 foo
crw-rw-rw- 1  1, 3 May 31 04:02 /dev/null

$ mv foo /dev/null
mv: overwrite `/dev/null'? y

$ ls -lgo /dev/null
-rw------- 1 21644 May 24 14:09 /dev/null
Hah! Did anyone say pseudo-leetness? :-)
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