Apple once did this to a few unsuspecting Mac users way back in the day. They re...

		mikeash on June 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix Recovery Legend (1986) Apple once did this to a few unsuspecting Mac users way back in the day. They released an iTunes installer that deleted the old copy of iTunes using this command: `rm -rf $2Applications/iTunes.app 2< /dev/null` $2 held the path to the drive containing the copy of iTunes to be deleted. If the name of that drive began with a space, chaos ensued....

I think Mac OS X was still very new at that time. 10.1 had been just recently released.