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If that's bad, remember the old iTunes installer bug?

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/04/0412209...

They had a shell script which didn't "quote" their $variables. It rm -rf'd entire drives by mistake. It's why I use "$@" now.



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