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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>fat-finger</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="fat-pipe.html" title="fat pipe"/><link rel="next" href="faulty.html" title="faulty"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">fat-finger</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="fat-pipe.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="faulty.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="fat-finger"/><dt xmlns="" id="fat-finger"><b>fat-finger</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the
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resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless,
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damaging, or wildly unexpected. “<span class="quote">NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file
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and took half the net down again.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad
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