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thats not how rm -rf works
Not to diminish the fact that that's not how rm works, but that's also not how anything else in his tweet works either.
I only care about the rm part
Yeah he needs a file or directory list after a space after the f
Traditional is /*
Just / would work but --no-preserve-root would kick it up a notch
Indeed