<div dir="ltr">thank you for letting me know this.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Todd Millecam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tyggna@gmail.com" target="_blank">tyggna@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>You can see the value of any variable just by typing:<br></div>echo $STEAMROOT<br><br></div>It'll probably be something like /home/user/.steam<br></div>But, if you've installed your games in multiple locations, then it would come back empty (because it would be an array or a list of directories), and thus expand to nothing leaving:<br><br></div>rm -rf /*<br><br></div>Which means wipe your whole OS.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">people are reporting a bug in steam. apparently there is a line in it that is deleting all the personal data<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px">all connected read/write media.</span><br><div> this is how the line reads:</div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.2000007629395px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.2000007629395px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">rm -rf $STEAMROOT/*</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.2000007629395px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.2000007629395px;background-color:rgb(247,247,247)">what does the '$' expand too?</span></p><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
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