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Seriously this is a joke. Do NOT try this (midwest.social)
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[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Since you forgot to add - - preserve-root It won’t go too far

Go on then ... try it.

Or don't because you will erase your system. (Hint: it's in the asterisk)

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or was it non preserve. I never tried it though. I guess a vm should be fine to test it. On the other hand I don't care enough.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The flag is called --no-preserve-root, but the flag wouldn't do anything here because you're not deleting root (/), you're deleting all non-hidden files and directories under root (/*), and rm will just let you do it.

[–] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure it's --no-preserve-root or something similar.