07-24-2009
Few years ago after leaving this telecom vendor I was working
with one of my colleagues who was with the application team IMed
me and asked for help to delete a directory with a & at the end.
The command I told him was:
rm -rf dir\&
which in the most bizzare way got translated by him to:
rm -rf dir /&
This would have caused minimal damage had this not been run as root
user and on the main database server with terabytes of data
on it..What happened next is anybody's guess
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SPELL(1) General Commands Manual SPELL(1)
NAME
spell - GNU spell, a Unix spell emulator
SYNOPSIS
spell [options] files ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the spell command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used
by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
spell is a program that emulates the traditional Unix spell command by calling the Ispell utility.
It is a spell checking program which prints each misspelled word on a line of its own.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options are included
below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-I, --ispell-version
Print Ispell's version.
-V, --version
Print the version number.
-b, --british
Use the British dictionary.
-d, --dictionary=FILE
Use FILE to look up words.
-h, --help
Print a summary of the options.
-i, --ispell=PROGRAM
Calls PROGRAM as Ispell.
-D, --ispell-dictionary=DICTIONARY
Use the named DICTIONARY to look up words.
-l, --all-chains
Ignored; for compatibility.
-n, --number
Print line numbers before lines.
-o, --print-file-name
Print file names before lines.
-s, --stop-list=FILE
Ignored; for compatibility.
-v, --verbose
Print words not literally found.
-x, --print-stems
Ignored; for compatibility.
SEE ALSO
The programs are documented fully by GNU Spell, a clone of Unix `spell', available via the Info system.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
SPELL(1)