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minus-squaregramie@lemmy.cacakelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 days agorm -rf --no-preserve-root / Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agobut here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
minus-squaregramie@lemmy.cacakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 days agoYou are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.
but here they use /* as the target, so they are not telling rm to delete the root directory.
You are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.