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I had a friend that was a system administrator. One of his favorite "puzzle questions" was: what just happened when you see this line in your terminal?

    .o: file not found
(This was back when most people wrote C, compiled to .o files, then linked to a final executable.) The answer was you had typed:

    rm * .o
While meaning to type:

    rm *.o
Oops.



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