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Posted: **Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:39 pm**

The mind of an anonymous Valve's programmer wrote: Hmmm... a rm -rf with an environment variable and a literal "/*" combined together as its parameter ...

Maybe I should check if the $STEAMROOT is not empty ...

Maybe I should check if the path exists ...

Maybe I could also rewrite it an leave out the "/*", after all I've specified -rf already with a path ...

Maybe ... hey ! Look at the time, it's noon ! Lunch time ! I'll think about all this later.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/201 ... inux-bug/1

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2015 1:08 am**

Geez...

I bet someone got fired...

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:54 am**

Shield wrote:Geez... I bet someone got fired...

Well in their defense, they at least commented it with "SCARY!"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896319

Posted: **Sun Jan 25, 2015 12:36 am**

http://store.steampowered.com/news/15512

Linux
Fixed a rare bug where Steam could delete user files when failing to start

A rare, unpredictable, inscrutable bug you mean.

Just another day at the office.

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'rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*'.

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