Oh yeah, there was a ridiculous example of a GitHub project that had a script deleting some config file in the user’s home directory or something like that. However, the command to delete it had one unintended space character in it and so it would delete the entire home directory. It was something like rm -rf ~/ .config/some_file instead of rm -rf ~/.config/some_file. Several people lost all their data because of that program.
I can’t remember what it was, but there was a post about it here on the forum…
EDIT: Found it:
It was actually the /usr directory that got deleted. So it wasn’t as bad as I remember it, but still, bad enough that several people had to reinstall their OSs. The author’s excuse:
GIANT BUG… causing /usr to be deleted… so sorry…
Yeah… I was very tired that night…
