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lol sudo rm -rf / (feddit.de)
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[–] naonintendois@programming.dev 21 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I trolled myself by "learning" that I could delete all files in a directory, including hidden files, with rm -rf ./*. The mistake being that I (more than once...) accidentally put a space between the . and /.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

And that's why every rm command should start life as an ls command and then change the command and options while not touching the target directory. Takes a little longer, but saves so much hassle when you do fuck up.

[–] naonintendois@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Rm was updated to actually log a warning in the -rf / cases, so that's less likely to happen anymore. Still not a bad habit to use ls though

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 8 months ago

/* still works I think

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 8 months ago

not if you use /*. gp was totally screwed with their typo.

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