flaviaPretend you are my boss at the rule opening factory
wildbus8979Remember kids, you gotta use
rm -rf --no-preserve-root / now a days!
What is that for?
Overrides the protection in place that prevents you from deleting the root of your filesystem.
TropicalDingdongToo many people got trolled into “removing the French language pack” on Linux systems that there’s now a check to see if someone is deleting every file off their computer (including the os system files). --no-preserve-root is the option you need to include to actually delete all the files off your system.
Jumutaweird how it doesn’t warn you for rm -rf /* though
depending on your shell, i believe the glob is expanded before it gets to the
rm program
wander1236Contrary to the memes, Linux does actually sometimes try to stop you from shooting yourself in the foot
Yes, do as I say!
gregorum sudo make me a sandwich
SzethFriendOfNimimake: unable to find input files me, a, sandwich
touch me
touch a
touch sandwich
LainTrainEvery time I get one of these even if I 100% feel like I know what I’m doing it strikes a deep fear in me
Barbarianrm -rf /* will work just fine.
You need the additional flag for rm -rf --no-preserve-root /.