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rape: vt.

1. To screw someone or something, violently; in particular, to destroy a program or information irrecoverably. Often used in describing file-system damage. “So-and-so was running a program that did absolute disk I/O and ended up raping the master directory.

2. To strip a piece of hardware for parts.

3. [CMU/Pitt] To mass-copy files from an anonymous ftp site. “Last night I raped Simtel's dskutl directory.


 
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