Biggest command-line mistake? [closed]
In SQL server, on a production system:
update customer set password = '' <enter>
The most recent backup was like a week old.
To mitigate this, I now usually write a select
statement first to make sure I've got the where
clause correct, then go back and edit it to insert the set
clause and change the statement to update
.
Biggest mistake? Thinking I had set two variables when I had not. So rm -rf $VARIABLE/$VARIABLE2 became rm -rf /. FreeBSD has recently updated their rm tool so that rm -rf / is not possible anymore precisely because of this mistake!
shutdown -h now
meant for the local workstation, but typed it while logged via ssh on production server. Since then I always have hostname in my $PS1
.
Omitting the -r from a shutdown command. On a remote server. On the other side of the country. With no IT staff in the remote office.
We've all done it, it's almost like a rite of passage at this stage.