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		nox101 on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to destroy your OS with tar That might be true but I've using arc, tar, pkzip since the 80s and even then I lost work and had to clean up on floppy disks because of this issue. I suppose the prudent thing is to list the files before decompressing

djbusby on May 24, 2024 [–]

Sure (and me as well) but, design bug? Maybe just different expectations of the user.

On that point, some heavy machinery took years before adding safety guards (some even required legislation before improving safety)

nox101 on May 25, 2024 | [–]

Even `rm -rf *` warns you before just doing it.

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