/bin/rm -rf *

Today I cleaned house. I still had something half a terabyte of data on the cluster at CU that I wasn't using anymore. Maybe that's small change to some of you, but it was taking up a significant amount of storage space on the cluster scratch disks. I'd meant to clear that out a month a go, but I got distracted by other things and forgot. Ever forget? Happened to me. I'd been reluctant to delete anything earlier in case I needed it again, but the paper has been published, and I'm keeping the code and the inputs so I can duplicate the data if necessary. (OK, the "data" are synthetic; they're actually model results). I clearly had too many files, when the command "/bin/rm DATA_DIRECTORY/CASE00/*" results in "rm: too many arguments".