Chan's Personal Blog

So I've been frantically trying to finish my CSC 450 network game project. I've been pulling relatively late nights working on this (relatively late considering I have to wake up at 7a.m. every morning. So tonight I finished coding all the major parts of the project with some small parts left. I went to compress the code and upload it to the school computers where I will demonstrate the game tomorrow.

I ran the following commands

chan%> tar -cf *

Which means mash all these files into one file. I forgot to give this mash file a file name ... but for some reason I thought that there'd be a file called * which would be the name of the mash file. So, stupidly enough I think, okay, lets delete this mistakenly named file.

chan%> rm *

A millisecond after, my brain goes ... oh crap! Did I just accidentally delete my entire project???? My heart stopped.

chan%> ls

I do a directory listing and find that EVERYTHING'S gone! That means a metric crap load of my time has just went down the drain.

chan%> GAH!f*ojh#ew!&()3523;K+_LSDjj!

I immediately stop everything and run undelete. (Yes, that's the command for undelete above.) Thankfully I was able to recover all my files.

In either case, now I remember why I don't code late at night anymore. Gah! Time for bed.