Post ARkbbA4eHqsnJjWiJ6 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
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 (DIR) Post #ARkbbA4eHqsnJjWiJ6 by arielmt@computerfairi.es
       2023-01-18T00:25:52Z
       
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       I love needing to grep thousands of files in 50 dot-directories recursively, and my first clue the 50yo ".*" gotcha bit me is a read-permission error for a file in an ancestor directory after a long wait.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARkdmtVXuBRZJzpW1g by arielmt@computerfairi.es
       2023-01-18T00:35:38Z
       
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       Related, I once accidentally pwned an entire college lab of NeXTstations without touching a keyboard.My home directory's ownership got messed up, the sysadmin was struggling to catch all my files in the fix commands, and I pointed out that my home dir's dotfiles needed the fix as well. The sysadmin got bit by the same ".*" bug on that 1992 day I got bit by today, but on the chown command.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARkdmwXQddjSihjYsS by arielmt@computerfairi.es
       2023-01-18T00:43:30Z
       
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       tl;dr: til '--exclude-dir=..'