If it hasn't happened to you in Unix, it will

Of course, let's clean the old .o files and do a final make, just to make sure the Makefile is fine:

/usr/project/src$ rm * .o
/usr/project/src$ rm: cannot remove `.o': No such file or directory
/usr/project/src$ ls -l
total 0
/usr/project/src$

_{Note to non-Unix readers}

_{If you don't know Unix, note that there's a space in the command "rm * .o", which should be "rm *.o" to remove all the object files in the current directory. With the space, the command will delete EVERYTHING (including your beloved C source code) and then try to erase a file named .o that does not exist. This is a very common mistake that people tend to do when they're very tired.}

s_alanet@codemonkey:/home/httpd/html/$ rm -f *~

s_alanet@codemonkey:/home/httpd/html/$ rm -f *

Luckily, I managed to recover the files I deleted - a good thing, too, as I had put quite a few dozen hours of work into them, and my boss wanted them up on the web in a day or two.