I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.


Let he who has not wrongly deleted system critical files in Linux cast the first stone.
rock = (rock_t) stones[0];LOL
Joke’s good enough it deserves a comment in addition to the upvote.
I appreciate the bytes and Δt spent
Amateurs. You all did it accidentally. I deleted system critical files intentionally believing it was beneficial.
/dev is just all bloat with stupid recursive directories
A development directory? I don’t need that!
Also a lot of redundancy in there.
I can do one better. A similar ‘rm’ command but while a Windows disk was mounted read/write. So, 2 OSes damaged in one command.
nice!
I am he. But I won’t