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Ian Knighton

I was working on writing a shell script to delete some files that were installed in the Applications directory on a Mac. In my mind, I had run it through command line so many times that I had just forgotten to fully write out the path.

So I finish up, make it fully executable, and bam! it erases my entire application folder.

Thank goodness for Time Machine.