@paul been there done that… once I even forgot to include any argument after crontab command on Solaris and it replaced existing crontab with empty one

@paul you could always switch to Dvorak 🤪

@paul Yep, did that when typing in a shell on my phone. I just stared at the returned prompt in disbelief. Had to go to the man page to see what -r did.

@paul I made that exact observation some 20 years ago when I nuked all the cron jobs on our pet email server at school by slipping a tiny amount on the keys

@paul totally agree, I’ve been bitten by that one too

@paul hence my alias crontab='crontab -i' in my .bashrc , asks for yes/no when accidentally fucking up